With her inimitable mix of scholarship and activism, Vandana Shiva lays out the emergency we all face: extinction, climate havoc and the global food crisis. She lays the blame squarely at the feet of the 1%: corporations, polluters and turncoat governments. She challenges the idea that all humans are responsible for this emergency and therefore challenges the term ‘anthropocene’.
Environmental treaties intended to protect the earth have been appropriated and are now being used to create new markets in pollution and massive environmental damage. The Biodiversity Convention (1992) has been undermined and subverted by the same 1%. This is a travesty for the planet and its inhabitants. In a similar fashion, the UN Climate Convention has been turned into a marketplace for trading pollution.
The shift in power from governments to corporations is epitomized by the 2023 COP 28 meeting being presided over by Sultan Asmed Al Jaber, head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and their investors BlackRock EniSpA and KKR & Co. Inc.
Our future, Shiva argues, is not about fake foods made in labs but by following the ecological laws of the earth by decolonising, decreasing food miles, deindustrialising and deglobalizing food systems. A future sustained by biodiversity, local foods, and end to deforestation and an ethical and organic farming system in which degenerative cycles are transformed into regenerative cycles.
By:
Vandana Shiva
Imprint: Spinifex Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 10mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781922964182
ISBN 10: 1922964182
Pages: 140
Publication Date: 13 August 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1. Introduction: A Planetary Crisis: the Biodiversity, Climate & Food Connection 2. Two Paradigms: Mechanophilia vs. Nature’s Technology 3. Industrial Farming and the Illusion of Food Security 4. Dead Food, Dead Metabolism 5. The Fake Food Dystopia 6. Conclusion: The Future of Food
Reviews for The Nature of Nature: The Metabolic Disorder of Climate Change
All of us who care about Planet Earth must be grateful to Vandana Shiva. Her voice is powerful and she is not afraid to tackle those corporate giants that are polluting, degrading and ultimately destroying the natural world. —Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace Vandana Shiva’s pioneering efforts on how a GMO and fossil-fuel based petrochemical agricultural system has wreaked havoc on our species’ global food chain and undermined ecosystems around the world – has touched off a global conversation on rethinking our approach to feeding our species. She has single handedly drawn several generations into pioneering regenerative agriculture and the restoration of ecosystems, particularly in the developing countries. Her new book, The Nature of Nature: the Metabolic Disorder of Climate Change makes the incontrovertible connections between a global warming climate and an outmoded agricultural system and guides our species into a more ecologically sensitive approach to provisioning food by treating nature as a shared commons for all of life on earth. —Jeremy Rifkin Vandana’s is a clear, indefatigable voice of outstanding intellect and compassion, of deliberate and compelling outrage in our planetary crisis, and a privilege to know and learn from in my lifetime. —Marilyn Waring
