Oneness vs. the 1, Vandana Shiva
Oneness vs. the 1, Vandana Shiva
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Oneness vs. the 1%
Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom

Author: Vandana Shiva, Kartikey Shiva

Narrator: Tia Rider

Unabridged: 5 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/14/2020

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Synopsis

With a new epilogue about Bill Gates’s global agenda and how we can resist the billionaires’ war on life
Widespread poverty and malnutrition, an alarming refugee crisis, social unrest, and economic polarization have become our lived reality as the top 1% of the world’s seven-billion-plus population pushes the planet—and all its people—to the social and ecological brink.
In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the Billionaires Club of Gates, Buffet, and Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires whose blindness to the rights of people, and to the destructive impact of their construct of linear progress, have wrought havoc across the world. Their single-minded pursuit of profit has undemocratically enforced uniformity and monocultures, division and separation, monopolies and external control—over finance, food, energy, information, healthcare, and even relationships.
Basing her analysis on explosive, little-known facts, Shiva exposes the 1%’s model of philanthrocapitalism, which is about deploying unaccountable money to bypass democratic structures, derail diversity, and impose totalitarian ideas based on One Science, One Agriculture, and One History. She calls for the “resurgence of real knowledge, real intelligence, real wealth, real work, real well-being,” so that people can reclaim their right to: Live Free. Think Free. Breathe Free. Eat Free.

About Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, a leader in the International Forum on Globalisation, and of the Slow Food Movement. Director of Navdanya and of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and a tireless crusader for farmers’, peasants’, and women’s rights, she is the author and editor of a score of influential books, among them Oneness vs. the 1%; Making Peace with the Earth; Soil Not Oil; Globalization’s New Wars; Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard; and Who Really Feeds the World?

Shiva is the recipient of over twenty international awards, including the Right Livelihood Award (1993); the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic (1998); the Horizon 3000 Award (Austria, 2001); the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008); the Save the World Award (2009); the Sydney Peace Prize (2010); the Calgary Peace Prize (2011); and the Thomas Merton Award (2011). She was the Fukuoka Grand Prize Laureate in 2012.


Reviews

Goodreads review by JC on July 14, 2021

I had a chance to watch Shiva talk while a student at Guelph. I believe Shiva completed her PhD at Guelph a number of decades ago, so it was neat to watch her speak there, especially at Canada's main agricultural post-secondary institution that has lecture halls named after food and agro-corporation......more

Goodreads review by Neel on January 28, 2020

Excellent book about philanthropy for corporate profit.......more

Goodreads review by Noel نوال on June 26, 2021

“The business of grabbing and money-making, through a violent extractive economy that the 1% have built, is burdening the earth and humanity with unbearable and non-sustainable costs, and has brought us to the brink of extinction. We do not have to escape from the earth; we have to escape from the i......more

Goodreads review by Will on November 22, 2021

Shiva mounts a strong attack against the reductionist logic of Trans-National Corporations, who continue to pollute our environment, destroy agricultural biodiversity and patent the seeds farmers in India and around the world have been planting for generations.......more

Goodreads review by Shan on October 16, 2020

Inserisco media, recensione a dopo image: Monsanto invasion image: Somministrazione massiva dei pesticidi image: Monocolture image: Monocolture......more