Using advanced technology and capital, developed countries have opened up huge tracts of tropical rainforest in the Third World for grazing land, and have tapped local species for genetic information to the benefit of the pharmaceutical and other industries. As a result of this theft of bio-resources, the poor get poorer, and environmental protection conflicts proliferate.
開發國挾著強勢科技與資本，將熱帶雨林大規模開發成牧地、在其中篩選生物基因研發成藥物等商品牟利，「生物資源」被盜取造成的惡性循環，使貧者更貧，也使保育頻生衝突。