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Title: Tomorrow's Biodiversity (Prospects for Tomorrow) by Vandana Shiva ISBN: 0-500-28239-0 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Siva opens eyes
Comment: Vandana Shiva started out as a physicist, is now a crusader for biodiversity. She has a terrific clear and direct style.
This short book tipped me over the edge, to an anti -GMO [geneticaly modied organisms] position. In the long-term GMO's may do wonders, but in the short term they are instruments in the hands of Global Capital, used to steal from the people. VS has a very important take on "yield" - the appropriated bottom lands "yield" less food and fibre, but they do yield profits for the corporations - this a is truly radical concept. Her stories of hundreds of farmer suicides in the wake of modern monoculture introduction are chilling, as are the dangers we are piling up by relying on vast areas of identically vulnerable crops.
Read this book and be changed.
Beyond the book:
A recent story suggests cause for hope. In Honduras, farmers on the slopes use grass berms on the contours and legumes to improve the soil. Their production is more valuable than that of the valley flats. The hill farming takes labour, so Capital cant take it over. This looks like the way ahead for the majority of the world, deserted by Capital. A key to the method is use of the correct varieties - winged beans the most prominent, but different altitudes benefit from different legumes. Information on varieties is crucial. Reports from Africa also suggest that legumes plus controlled animal grazing and fodder collection are making successful small farms . A truck to market can put the farm into the cash economy.
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Title: Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq by Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber ISBN: 1585422762 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 0805074007 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua ISBN: 0385503024 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance by Nat Hentoff ISBN: 1583226214 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture by Carolyn Merchant ISBN: 0415931649 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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