from thefreeonline on 26th April 2024 by Deutsche Welle dw.com
The link between predatory capitalism and the destruction of nature.
Activist Vandana Shiva, director of the Science, Technology and Ecology Research Foundation, based in New Delhi, India. Photo: Mindjazz Pictures
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From April 2, 2024
Vandana Shiva:
“Hunger is created before the temperature rises”
In an interview, Indian activist Vandana Shiva defends indigenous peoples’ knowledge and food sovereignty as a way to combat climate change and rising food prices.
In Tierra viva: my life in a biodiversity of movements, the author revisits 40 years of struggle in defense of food sovereignty and against what she calls the link between predatory capitalism and the destruction of nature.
“Drink water, enough food and be able to breathe cleanly. These are the basic flows that give us life. And when attempts are made to privatize and close them, what is threatened is the very possibility of living. At this point, if we make a very honest assessment, a large number of our fellow humans, other human beings, as well as other beings on Earth, are threatened and experiencing an extinction crisis,” states Shiva.
In an interview with DW, the scientist also affirms that Brazil needs to change the logic of large-scale production created by the globalized industrial agriculture model, giving way to organic agriculture as a way to combat rising prices.
“The mistake was betting everything on industrial agriculture, reducing agriculture to manufacturing, which uses fossil fuels and obtains raw materials. Globalization further reduces the food system. Before we ate ten thousand species of plants and now we sell corn, soybeans and cotton only because they are genetically modified and generate royalties for large companies,” she says.
DW: In her new book, Living Earth: My Life in a Biodiversity of Movements, she reviews environmental struggles that combine quantum physics with science, technology, and environmental policy.
How do you see the evolution of these issues since you began to get involved
Vandana Shiva: My values are the same. My orientation comes from the same things: protecting the Earth, defending Human Rights and Justice. When I started, there was a smaller lobby, such as the logging and mining lobby, among others. That was very little compared to what we have today.
Now, as globalization and neoliberalism have emerged, we have reached the point where large corporations want to control all life on Earth through standards and genetically modified organisms.
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