ntrolled chiefly by the richer nations and corporate interests in them. Meanwhile, the shift in agricultural practices and norms has been a mixed blessing, with cycles of drought and famine interspersed with corporate and government-sponsored elimination of forests and hence of biological diversity (Kennedy, 1993, p. 66). This could threaten future food supplies.
Connected to the apparent uncertainty about agricultural practices is the uncertainty of environmental degradation, with rich nations encouraging poor ones to preserve their pristine environment and the poor ones resenting the intrusion of so-called enlightened developed nations on the development policies of developing nations. Global warming is problematic as well--not simply because it is considered a geobiological fact but also because "the scientific evidence here also is complicated, incomplete, and at times bewilderingly
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