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Climate change will dramatically alter how we live and is already affecting the lives of the world's most vulnerable people. In "Soil Not Oil", bestselling author Vandana Shiva 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. Bold and visionary, Shiva reveals how three crises are inherently linked and that any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere. Condemning industrial agriculture and industrial biofuels as recipes for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva's champion is the small, independent farm.What we need most in a time of changing climates and millions hungry, she argues, are sustainable, biologically diverse farms that are more resistant to disease, drought, and flood. Calling for a return to local economies and small-scale food production Shiva outlines our remaining options: a market-centred short-term escape for the privileged, which will deepen the crisis for the poor and marginalized, or a people-centred fossil-fuel-free future, which will offer a decent living for all.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Triple Crisis, Triple Opportunity1. Politics of Climate Change2. Sacred Cow vs. Sacred Car3. Food For People or For Cars4. Soil Not OilConclusion: Unleashing Shakti: Our Power to TransformNotes Index About the Author

About the Author :
Vandana Shiva is is a world renowned environmental activist and author. Her many books include: "Staying Alive"; "Ecofeminism" and "Protect or Plunder" and she has authored over 300 journal and scientific papers. Shiva has served as an adviser to governments in India and abroad as well as non governmental organisations, including the Women's Environment & Development Organization and the Third World Network. She is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization and in 1993, and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (1993). Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India 's leading physicists. She holds a master's degree in the philosophy of science and a Ph.D. in particle physics.

Review :
This book wakes us up to some of the fundamental realities of food production on which we all depend … should be essential reading for all students of community development.' 'Shiva has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of ordinary people in India. The South's best known environmentalist. A world leading expert on food sustainability. One of the world's most prominent radical scientists Shiva is a burst of creative energy, an intellectual power.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781848133150
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books Ltd
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Sub Title: Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity
  • ISBN-10: 1848133154
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jan 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 138 mm


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