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Vandana Shiva 
Sat Apr 04, 2009 at 18:41:37 PM PDT
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Monsanto's blog has a post up about Indian farmer suicides. Naturally, they say it isn't their fault. Well... since they brought it up, I decided to listen to Vandana Shiva on Democracy Now from December 2006 when she spoke on the subject. She kinda thinks it IS their fault.
I've attempted to transcribe the Vandana Shiva interview below, although I'll admit that I only got about half of it so I do recommend listening to the interview yourself. And - please - drop a line to your Senators telling them about the Indian farmer suicides and citing them as a reason to oppose S.384.
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Thu Jan 01, 2009 at 19:15:39 PM PST
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From Organic Consumers:
- Former Kansas Governor: Factory Farms are a Danger to Us All - Amen to that! Quite frankly I do not see why factory farms are still legal (other than the fact that Bush has about 20 days left in office, and intends to use each of them to screw the American people and all sentient beings on this planet).
- More U.S. Land Devoted to Organic Cotton - This is GREAT news, considering that cotton is such an environmentally harmful crop when grown using pesticides AND considering how much of our growing demand for organics is being satisfied by imports. It's good to know that more of our own land is being used for organic cotton!
From Grist: Tom Philpott recommends Vandana Shiva's Soil Not Oil. I heartily second his recommendation, even though I'm only halfway through the book!
From The Ethicurean: A fantastic news digest including details on a breaking scandal! Apparently a large California fertilizer company secretly included non-organic ingredients and then sold its fertilizer as organic to farms.
From Yale Sustainable Food Project: Wendell Berry calls for civil disobedience to protest coal! Mr. Berry, I am with you. Tell me where to show up and I'll bring the protest signs and bail money!
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Mon Nov 17, 2008 at 19:33:51 PM PST
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Yes, you read that right. The World Bank in general and former chief economist Lawrence Summers in particular are concerned that the virgin lands of this earth located in developing nations may be "under polluted." Fortunately, they are right there to make sure we pollute those places to make sure they are just as dirty as our countries.
Lawrence Summers... where have I heard that name before? Oh right, as a potential Obama pick for Treasury Secretary. Yikes.
The specific quote by Summers re: pollution is below.
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Sat Nov 08, 2008 at 03:09:53 AM PST
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We might not be nuking anyone with a bomb these days, but we're nuking them all the same. We're just doing it quietly. Vandana Shiva, an Indian activist trained in nuclear physics, just published a book called Soil Not Oil in which she provides an absolutely DAMNING description of nuclear power AND of the Kyoto Protocol.
Now that I'm reading it, I'm utterly depressed. We just spent the last 8 years bemoaning the fact that we aren't signed onto Kyoto, and now that we have a president who would gladly sign onto it (or onto whatever comes next), I find out that the whole thing is a bunch of BS anyway. We SHOULD HAVE spent the last 8 years calling for real solutions to global warming, not debating whether or not global warming exists.
Thank goodness we're back to business with a leader who gets that our energy problems are real and we need something other than oil. Follow me below so you can hear Vandana Shiva's arguments on why nuclear is unjust and unsustainable and so is Kyoto.
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Thu Nov 06, 2008 at 08:05:54 AM PST
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I've been reading Vandana Shiva's new book Soil Not Oil and I LOVE it! She presents MANY statistics about the effects of industrialization and a fossil fuel driven economy and agricultural system on our world to drive home the urgency we need to place on a transition to soil, not oil. I'll write more about it later, but I wanted to share a fantastic quote with you for now.
The imposition of the mechanical-industrial paradigm for production and distribution of food, clothing, and other basic needs in the South was initially carried out by the World Bank and IMF through "development" aid. It is now imposed through World Bank/IMF structural adjustmant programs (SAPs) and the WTO rules of so-called free trade, which are, in effect, rules for the freedom to destroy resources, deplete energy, and pollute the atmosphere.
Globalization is, in effect, the globalizatino of energy-intenseive, resource-wasteful, fossil fuel-driven industrialization of our production and consumption pattersn. Globalization forces non-sustainability on the world. The players are neither individual citizens nor individual countries. The players are global corporations who move production of goods around the globe to where they can obtain the highest profit margins by bearing the lowest costs. - Soil not Oil, p. 15
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