Making peace with the earth - Beyond resource, land & food wars (Paperback)

Wars in the 21st century are wars against the earth: against natural resources like water, soil, forests, minerals, seeds. The global corporate economy based on the idea of limitless growth has become a war economy and the means it uses are instruments of war. Trade wars. Water wars. Food wars. In a compelling and rigorously documented exposition, Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of profit and power by demonstrating its flawed assumptions and devastating fallouts. Corporate control violates all ethical and ecological limits. It promotes technologies of production based on genetic engineering, geo-engineering and toxins; industrial development that entails the forcible appropriation of land, rivers, mountains; agribusinesses that deplete nature's diversity; land-grab in Africa, Asia, South America. Exploitation of this order incurs the kind of ecological and economic debt that is unsustainable, unbailable and unbearable. Making Peace with the Earth outlines how a paradigm shift to earth-centred politics and economics is our only chance of survival; and how collective resistance to corporate exploitation can open the way to a new environmentalism of interdependence and earth democracy.

General

Imprint:	Jacana Media
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	February 2013
Authors:	Vandana Shiva
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	267
ISBN-13:	978-1-4314-0716-3
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Social impact of environmental issues > General
LSN:	1-4314-0716-X
Barcode:	9781431407163

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