Soil, Not Oil (eBook)

Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity

Vandana Shiva (Autor)

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2016 | 2. Auflage
176 Seiten
Zed Books (Verlag)
9781783607723 (ISBN)

Infos

Outlines a bold and compelling vision for a world liberated from our dependence on fossil fuels and globalization. 

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'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.'The GuardianThis book is classic of the environmental movement. In it, Vandana Shiva envisions a world beyond our current dependence on fossil fuels and globalization, and makes the compelling case that food crises, oil dependency and climate change are all inherently interlinked. Any attempt to solve one without addressing the others is therefore doomed to failure.Condemning industrial agriculture and biofuels as recipes for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva instead champions small independent farmers. What is needed most, in a time of hunger and changing climates, are sustainable, biologically diverse farms that are better able to resist disease, drought and flooding. Calling for a return to local economies and small-scale agriculture, Shiva argues that humanity's choice is a stark one: we can either continue to pursue a market-centred approach, which will ultimately make our planet unliveable, or we can instead strive for a people-centred, oil-free future, one which offers a decent living for all.This edition features a new introduction by the author, in which she outlines recent developments in ecology and environmentalism, and offers new prescriptions for the environmental movement.

Autor

Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker and director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology and Ecology.  Her many books include Ecofeminism, Earth Democracy and Staying Alive. She is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization, and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (1993).

Inhalt

• Preface to the 2016 Edition
• Introduction: Triple Crisis, Triple Opportunity
• 1. Politics of Climate Change
• 2. Sacred Cow or Sacred Car
• 3. Food for Cars or People
• 4. Soil, Not Oil
• Conclusion: Unleashing Shakti: Our Power to Transform
  

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Alan Greig • Andrea Cornwall • Ariel Salleh • Debashish Munshi • Earth Democracy • Ecofeminism as Politics • Feminisms, Empowerment and Development • Feminist Futures • Frank G. Karioris • Jenny Edwards • Jerker Edstrom • John Foran • Kum-Kum Bhavnani • Masculinities under Neoliberalism • Men and Development • Nancy Lindisfarne • Priya A. Kurian • Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy
• ISBN-13: 9781783607723 / 9781783607723