Schumacher Lecture delivered in October 2003. The essay that follows is based on the Annual E. Please welcome this rare combination of a lawyer and a man for all seasons. Some years ago he coached his son’s Little League team to its first and so far only championship in Arlington, Virginia. Andrew is presently working with his friend and mentor Father Thomas Berry to explore legal solutions to protect the rights of nonhuman species. He regularly challenges government agencies to protect consumers by testing and labeling genetically modified foods, regulating greenhouse-gas emissions, preserving strict organic food standards, and implementing other food and environmental safety standards. More recently, he founded the International Center for Technology Assessment and its sister organization the Center for Food Safety, where he works through the legal system to confront some of the worst abuses of the corporate giants. While a policy director at The Foundation on Economic Trends, he led the first legal attack against the biotechnology corporations. Introducing him in 2000, Kirkpatrick Sale described him as a lawyer in the service of the Earth. Perhaps even prophetic, except in an odd way the evil is warming up as well.Īndrew is a writer, an activist, and a lawyer. It was entitled “Cold Evil: Technology and Modern Ethics.” His phrase “cold evil,” chilling at the time, is if anything all the more appropriate now.
MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICSĪndrew Kimbrell gave his first Schumacher lecture in 2000.
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