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 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.
listener in Albuquerque –
I liked Vandana Shiva’s discussion about the dominant design mechanization and the ancient indigenous one of interconnectedness and practice of biodiversity. She’s a great speaker.
listener in NM –
Dr. Shiva’s insightful discussion about the design, mechanization and the ancient indigenous one of interconnectedness and practice of biodiversity was most enlightening. She is terrific.
listener in CO –
Vandana Shiva is a sane voice in a crazy world.
DrTCH –
Respectfully…Ms. Shiva is a WONDERFUL commentator, but I DO wish she’d include in her “Quantum” and “Holistic” approach some consideration of “Chem-Trails” and “HAARP ” manipulation of the ionosphere….and other components of “Geo-Engineering.” The “climate problem” is a MUCH broader one than simply CO2 = Climate Change (and related to a “mandate” to shift to non-petrol technologies). THANK YOU, Alternative Radio!!!
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?