Nanotechnology - it's all a bit fishy...
Wild Card's progress: fully-fledged
This Wild Card came from:
European Commission Framework Programme for RTD
The theme/scheme related to this Wild Card:
Theme 4 - Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials & new production technologies
The sub-theme that best relates to this Wild Card:
Health, safety and environmental impact
Likelihood timeframe and scenario features :
now-2050+
Wild Card's description
Routine monitoring of marine pollution in the Red Sea finds high levels of nanopollutants in fish and this has been traced to a nanotechnology 'accident' in Saudi Arabia. Further tests show the particles in drinking water in Egypt causing political uprising and calls for invasion!
