Battle fuelled by greed
Reviewed by Nirbhai Singh

Making Peace with the Earth (Beyond Resources, Land and Food Wars)
By Vandana Shiva. 
Women 
Unlimited. Pages vii+267. Rs 375

vandana Shiva, internally renowned authority and activist on environment, boldly condemns corporate profiteering enterprise that is polluting, degrading and ultimately destroying fertility of the earth. Recent wars in the world have harmed the natural resources like; water, soil, forests, minerals, seeds etc. The present work, rigorously documented exposition, demolishes the myth of globalisation; mad race of corporate profiteering aims at material gains for grabbing temporal power. She puts forth cogent arguments with authentic references.

Corporate control violates all norms of morality and ecological limits. She puts forth flawed assumption in globalisation which results in devastation. It promotes technologies of production based on genetic engineering, geo-engineering and toxin industrial development that contains forcible land grabbing which is exploitation of ecology of economic profits.

The book outlines a paradigm shift that implies the earth-centric politics and economics in the fallout of modern technology carried out under the cover of globalisation. Collective or cooperative exploitation opens an era of techno-system of interdependence and domineering super-global powers under the umbrella of technological democracy. Concentration of political power is economy of the despotic personalities who have posited money-centred gods. Thus, globalisation, a craze for limitless growth, has become a permanent war for money and power that is against ecological health and power (page 3). Insatiable hunger has recoiled in incurable cancerous diseases. Politicians are playing power politics without understanding the undercurrent of fleecing Indian economy and leaving the poor hungry and frustrated. It is an eye-opener for serious readers.





 



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