Science & Technology – Taking Back Control Or: Why Should Big Tech and Billionaires Decide How We Use Technology?

💡 Translation: Just because something is high-tech doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

🌞 Solar radiation management? Could disrupt global weather patterns and disempower communities.

🏭 Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)? Could mean mass deforestation to grow biofuel crops, worsening land grabs.

🌲 Reforestation? Only if it’s diverse, regenerative, and locally controlled. No more planting endless rows of monoculture trees that kill biodiversity.

📌 How this policy seeks to address this

🤖 No tech deployment without strict ecological & social criteria.

👥 Tech must support community resilience—not corporate control.

💥 Not every technological ""fix"" is actually a fix. Some just shift the problem elsewhere.

💡 Translation: Stop letting corporations "own" technology that should be public.

Right now, corporations patent medicine, seeds, renewable tech, and digital tools—blocking access and innovation.

🚫 The problem?

💊 Pharmaceutical companies patent drugs that should be available to all.

🔋 Big Tech hoards renewable energy patents instead of making them open-source.

💰 Startups exist just to buy and sit on patents, killing innovation.

📌 How this policy seeks to address this

⚙️ Limit patent duration—so innovation isn’t locked up forever.

🌐 Expand open-source tech—so knowledge spreads freely.

⚛ Make essential medicines, green tech, and social infrastructure patent-free.

💥 No one should die or go without because a corporation ""owns"" a cure or a tool."

💡 Translation: Fund science that helps people, not arms dealers.

Right now, billions are spent on:

🛡 Military research (because war is profitable).

🏢 Luxury tech (because Silicon Valley loves making things for the rich).

📡 Mass surveillance (because governments and corporations love control).

🚫 The problem?

💣 We invest in making better bombs, but not in fixing housing crises.

📱 We get new iPhones every year, but no innovation in repairing old ones.

📊 We monitor people’s data, but don’t track corporate environmental destruction.

📌 How this policy seeks to address this

🔬 Redirect science funding toward climate resilience, care work, and social infrastructure.

📢 Ban public funding for tech that fuels war, surveillance, or corporate expansion.

⚡ Make tech accountable to the public, not just to profit-driven investors.

💥 If technology isn’t making life better for people and the planet, it’s not progress—it’s just power hoarding.