Outsourcing Global Pollution to India - Vandana Shiva
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/28/Vandana_Shiva_in_Conversation Environmental researcher and activist Vandana Shiva points out that as India has taken on greater production of global goods, it has also taken on a proportionate amount of global pollution. ----- Since the 1980s, Shiva has championed the anti-globalization movement and is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization. Her research and resultant advocacy explores the applicability of traditional Vedic knowledge and ecology to alleviate poverty in developing countries. She is the founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology, an organization whose research has validated the ecological value of traditional farming and whose efforts have been instrumental in fighting destructive building projects in India. Shiva has also been active in repositioning women in the debate on development, for which she received the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "Alternative Nobel Peace Prize." Shiva has authored over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals and books include Biopiracy, Stolen Harvest, Monocultures of the Mind, and Water Wars. - City Arts and Lectures Born in India in 1952, Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, she is the author of many books, including Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization (South End Press, 2001), Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (South End Press, 1997), Monocultures of the Mind (Zed, 1993), The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed, 1992), and Staying Alive (St. Martin's Press, 1989). Shiva is a leader in the International Forum on Globalization, along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin. She addressed the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, 1999, as well as the recent World Economic Forum in Melbourne, 2000. In 1993, Shiva won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award). The founder of Navdanya ("nine seeds"), a movement promoting diversity and use of native seeds, she also set up the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in her mother's cowshed in 1997. Its studies have validated the ecological value of traditional farming and been instrumental in fighting destructive development projects in India .
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Excellent speaker. Fight against Codex Alimentarius and S. 510 "FDA Food Safety Modernization Act" which would eliminate local and raw foods through empty promises of safety. These regulations would bankrupt small farmers who try to offer diversity and choice.
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Industrialization is the root of all ugliness - Oscar Wilde
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There are two answers. Lot of people are NOT rich. They WANT to assume and think "Money is Evil". second, not every one is smart enough to exactly understand what Dr. Vandhana is talking. so some misunderstanding is possible. It is all about ECO. We can do anything to the amount that will NOT disturb our ECO system. She is clearly against even agriculture that puts ECO system at stake. She is Brilliant
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i dont know what is the per capita income in her village, but what i can tell is that nobody goes hungry in that village, and there has never been a case of farmer suicide there and also it is one of the few villages in north India with 100% literacy, and also vandana shiva lives in a traditional house, it is not a hut nor is it a air conditioned bungalow
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you stupid guy, you know nothing about vandana shiva, she does live in a village in himachal pradesh, where she runs a famous organic farm, her village is entirely employed in organic agriculture, and they live a happy life, she is well documented by various agencies and she is a particle physicist not some stupid person like you.
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Thanks for uploading this video on an important topic. I am often disappointed though when comments are not challenged. This woman makes some excellent points. But if they are so logical - why doesn't everyone agree? We won't move forward by agreeing with ourselves and people who think like us. We need to engage people with different viewpoints, to understand our differences and then to move forward. Otherwise we're just preaching to the converted. Thanks again
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its not economical development..................rather an economic pupet.....
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hi....even without industrilization v would hav reached.......do u think people in the past suffered............?
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You're missing the point, which is - Where do these people go?
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It is amazing how you completely miss the point here - she is saying that the Indians have nowhere to go, whereas the Europeans could leave for the colonies. If you feel anger over what Indian immigration there is, imagine how the Aborigines felt when the Europeans started arriving.
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Too many people view the world in terms of dollar signs, factories, high-tech industries, and stock exchanges. They have no appreciation for the workings of the human body and of human hearts and minds - they believe that cold machinery will be our salvation. To such people I would like to say: so long as human hearts beat, so long as human beings are conscious of the innate dignity within us all, you will face relentless enemies. Humanity must always come first and it inevitably will.
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non-capitalism isn't nessecary comunism. russia and china had to adapt to a world wide capitalism. Our flourishing years were made possible by cheap labour and resources from our (economic) colonies. (not neccecary real colonies)
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Do you think you are independent? Study capitalism, and form your own opinion. The brittisch occupation brought industrie and economic decline. Thats whats causing your poverty. Or do you want to become a rich capitalistic country? Where everybody is blind and buys a lot of shit they don't need, made by poor people accros the world? Although it may seem that way, Industrialization isn't the only solution 4 poverty. food, water, a shelter and healthcare is the only thing mankind needs.
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thanks to this lady probably millions of low to none income Indians have benefited. the independence of cheap labor employees is under constant pressure of corporate movement. And a win for them is a loss for us. I do say 'us' because the original source for this 'evil' originates from our consumptive behavior. In Holland's history there's periods of semi-slavery, in long times of underemployment it was easy for the corp. . Living mainly of agriculture on a small scale does not mean poverty.
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When you want to be a world power, you get world problems
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On the other hand I think that its important not to downplay the importance and benefits of the kind of growth India is trying to sustain. We definitely did learn, and continue to learn, hard lessons from our industrialization, but it allso gave us alot of wealth.
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So true
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Why must you be so negative? what your saying is far besides the point of the vid.
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having a phd in physics does not make you an economist
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