Synopsis"Widespread poverty and malnutrition, an alarming refugee crisis, social unrest,
economic polarisation... 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, Buffett, Zuckerberg and other modern Mughals, 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."
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About the author
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 several influential books, including Making Peace with the Earth; Soil Not
Oil; Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard; and Who Really Feeds the World?
Shiva is the recipient of over twenty international awards, among them 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 Sydney Peace Prize
(2010); the Calgary Peace Prize (2011); and the Thomas Merton Award (2011). She
was the Fukuoka Grand Prize Laureate in 2012.
