Talk:Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

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Whew. Another tough one to write, as it summarizes a political controversy. But it ties up the various issues with small-b small-p biosafety protocol - and provides references to the players. I need to find the UN weapons inspection and bioweapons proliferation links.

What's tough about this is that Greens insist on making a connection between spread of manmade organisms and human conflict, and the powers-that-be insist on not making it, treating the two definitions of "biosecurity" as separate...

I managed to highlight this issue much more clearly here - it got messy when I tried to do it in "biosecurity"... also this leaves the door open to discuss biosecurity_protocol (small-b small-p) generically and thus it's clear that Biosecurity_Protocol (big-B big-P) DOES NOT EXIST and that it's just a proposal being kicked around (mostly by Greens) as a kind of global governance scheme.

The problem with the earlier entries, which I realized thanks to the controversy about them, was that there are four clearly different things at four clearly different levels of reality: Biosafety Protocol is totally real and agreed on, biosafety protocol is a generic term including many things that aren't in it, biosecurity protocol is a generic term evolving to try to bring the various constitutencies together, and Biosecurity Protocol is total blue-sky politically-proposed fiction.

Whew.

Biosafety protocol and Biosafety Protocol currently point to different articles (the latter redirects to Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety). Should they be merged in some way?

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So who are the signatories?

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There's over 50 of them, but who are they? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.173.120.104 (talk) 13:58, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2010-06-09T13:58:00.000Z","author":"94.173.120.104","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-94.173.120.104-2010-06-09T13:58:00.000Z-So_who_are_the_signatories?","replies":[]}}-->