With "Soil Not Oil," Vandana Shiva connects the dots between industrial agriculture and climate change. Shiva shows that a world beyond dependence on fossil fuels and globalization is both possible and necessary.
Condemning industrial agriculture as a recipe for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva's champion is the small, independent farm: their greater productivity, their greater potential for social justice as they put more resources into the hands of the poor, and the biodiversity that is inherent to the traditional farming practiced in small-scale agriculture. What we need most ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780896087828ISBN:0896087824
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 147 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. A must-read for anyone who takes the future of the planet seriously, Soil Not Oil dares us to imagine a world where people matter more than profits. With Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva brilliantly reveals what connects humanity s most urgent crises food insecurity, peak oil, and climate change and why any ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ZED BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781848133150ISBN:1848133154
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 320 pages. Connects the food crisis, peak oil, and climate change to show that a world beyond a dependence on fossil fuel and globalization is both possible and necessary. this book shows how three crises are inherently linked and that any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere. (Paperback) read more
"This book is a must-read for everyone. It provides compelling data and profound insight into the damage waged upon our world by non-sustainable farming, trading, energy, and economics. The book covers the negative impacts of globalization in terms of poverty, exploitation, food prices, energy prices, pollution, etc. It is only about 150 pages long, but it is as comprehensive as it is terse. Shiva makes a compelling and passionate argument for adaptation of sustainable, earth-friendly farming, trading, and economic policy. I took it as a manifesto to the world - a warning and a pleading for governments and populations worldwide to adopt sustainable, renewable procedures for global farming, trading, and economics."
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