The environmental impact of genetic editing in Brazil: an approach from global bioethics
Brazil has one of the largest environmental biodiversity in the world and at the same time, when it comes to biotechnology’s application, it is the second country in the use of genetically modified organisms. This scenario denotes a fruitful field for the application of promising genetic editing tec...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2021
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/tematicas/article/view/15161 |
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| Summary: | Brazil has one of the largest environmental biodiversity in the world and at the same time, when it comes to biotechnology’s application, it is the second country in the use of genetically modified organisms. This scenario denotes a fruitful field for the application of promising genetic editing technologies in the environmental and agricultural areas. However, to the benefits offered by this technique, there is an emerging need to list environmental risks and proper management and environmental protection in global terms. In this context, from the manipulation of living organisms and systems, unpredictability emerges as one of the singularly problematic factors. Despite this, the ethical conflicts that emerge from it can be guided by an ethics of responsibility, based on a primary duty of precaution over possible possibilities. This article, based on the framework of global bioethics, addresses such unpredictability and conflicts, considering that the ongoing debate on such biotechnological innovations for genetic manipulation requires not only expanding the horizon of analysis on environmental issues, but also and deepening the reflections that take into account aspects specific to the genome manipulation techniques in use, meanly in the challenging Brazilian context, which has such great biodiversity. |
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| ISSN: | 2595-315X |
