9788188965755
Women Unlimited 2012
Language: English
162 Pages
Price INR 399.0 Not Available
Book Club Price INR 319.2 USD
Wars in the 21st century are wars against the earth; against natural resources like water, soil, forests, minerals, seeds. The global corporate economy, based on the idea of limitless growth, has become a war economy, and the means it uses are instruments of war. Trade wars. Waters wars. Food wars. Globalisation and consumerism lubricate the war against the earth; corporate control violates all ethical and ecological limits. It promotes technologies of production based on genetic engineering, geo-engineering and toxins; industrial development that entails the enforced appropriation of land, rivers, mountains; agribusinesses that deplete nature’s diversity; land-grab in Africa, Asia, and South America. 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 of interdependence and earth democracy.