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Making Peace with the Earth

Making Peace with the Earth

Vandana Shiva

(2013)

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Abstract

'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists', Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of profit and power, revealing the devastating environmental impact of corporate capitalism.

Shiva argues that consumerism lubricates the war against the earth and that corporate control violates all ethical and ecological limits. She takes the reader on a journey through the world's devastated eco-landscape, one of genetic engineering, industrial development and land-grabs in Africa, Asia and South America. She concludes that exploitation of this order is incurring an ecological and economic debt that is unsustainable.

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.
'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists'
Guardian

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Cover Cover
Contents v
Abbreviations vi
Acknowledgements vii
Part I: Wars Against the Earth 1
1. Eco-Apartheid as War 3
2. The Great Land-Grab 30
3. Water Wars and Water Peace 83
4. Climate Wars and Climate Peace 98
5. Forest Wars and Forest Peace 111
Part II: Food Crises, Food Justice, Food Peace 127
6. Hunger by Design 129
7. Seed Wars as Wars against the Earth 148
8. Hunger via Corporate-Controlled Trade 196
9. Beyond Growth: Making Peace with the Earth 232