War on the Earth
The predatory practices of corporations are increasingly turning our fragile garden into a junkyard. Citizens are told by their political masters and the corporados who pay them that there is no alternative. That’s true if one’s only concern is profits. That approach is fast turning our planet into a toxic waste dump. The landscape of environmental devastation extends from radiation leaks in Japan to drilling in the Alberta tar sands to hydofracking in Pennsylvania and New York to leveling mountains in West Virginia to more drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. However in India, the site of some of the worst corporate abuses, there is tremendous popular resistance. Some of the poorest people anywhere are saying, Stop the plunder. No to the war on earth. Interview by David Barsamian.
Speaker
Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva is an internationally renowned voice for sustainable development and social justice. She’s a physicist, scholar and social activist. She is a founder of Navdanya and Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi. She said, “I started Navdanya, nine seeds, as a political act so that farmers would have free seeds in their hands. Using that free seed, they would be able to resist the kind of control system that corporations were trying to establish in India. Through those seeds, they can establish sustainable organic agriculture again.” She is the recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize and the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize. She is the author of many books, including Water Wars, Earth Democracy, Soil Not Oil, Oneness vs the 1%, and Terra Viva.
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