Interconnectedness
The corporate takeover of food with its toxic chemical inputs poses serious health and environmental problems. Corporate agriculture, The New York Times states unequivocally “is causing irreparable harm to the planet.” It is “ravaging the air, soil and water, destroying wildlife habitats and spurring climate chaos. The system, a vast web of industries and processes that stretches from seed to pasture, to packaging, to the supermarket, to the trash dump, produces at least a third of all human-caused greenhouse gases.” There are alternatives. We can learn much from traditional organic farming techniques as practiced by indigenous farmers. In this program, Vandana Shiva describes the importance of biodiversity and the interconnectedness of all life. She says, “What we do to the Earth, what we do to the land, what we do to biodiversity eventually comes back to us. There is no separation.”
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 is the recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize and of the Right Livelihood Award, the alternative Nobel Prize. She is the author of many books including Water Wars, Earth Democracy, Soil Not Oil, and Oneness vs the 1%.
AR Listener –
Vandana Shiva has a courageously fiery heart, well-informed strength of clarity and great pragmatic relevance to the health of all. She is the embodiment of heart, logic and active power.
Andrea Doremus –
Vandana Shiva is so comprehensive and evidence-based, while still simple and clear. Profoundly challenging & terrifying in her diagnosis of our systemic failures, while offering hope in the form of practical solutions. Genius.
Lynne Paz –
Impressive talk laying out the connections between the earth, agriculture, food, business and human intervention on thousands of years of the earth’s evolvement. Easy to understand and digest! Everyone on this planet should hear or read this!
Anne in CO –
Thanks so much! Very inspiring!! What a woman!
Eugenia Mitsanas –
Truth-telling, grounding, re-affirming. Thank you!
John Rowe –
Disquieting, perceptive. Food supply importance is meaningfully highlighted.
Can we rise to her challenge?