Periodically, I will be highlighting books from my affiliate partner, Chelsea Green Publishing. They offer an inspiring selection of books focused on the politics and practice of sustainable living. Since 1984, Chelsea Green has been the leading publisher of books about organic farming, gardening, homesteading, integrative health, natural building, sustainable living, socially responsible business, and more. The company is now employee-owned.
One of their publications, Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom by Vandana Shiva (with Kartikey Shiva), is a powerful indictment of the world’s wealthiest people who have funneled the planet’s resources from the masses to the minority.
Here’s the book description from the publisher:
“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.”
Reviews and Praise
- “All of us who care about the future of Planet Earth must be grateful to Vandana Shiva. Her voice is powerful, and she is not afraid to tackle those corporate giants that are polluting, degrading and ultimately destroying the natural world.”—Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace
- “Her fierce intellect and her disarmingly friendly, accessible manner have made her a valuable advocate for people all over the developing world.”—Ms. magazine
- “A rock star in the worldwide battle against genetically modified seeds.”—Bill Moyers
- “Shiva is a burst of creative energy, an intellectual power.”—The Progressive
- “One of the world’s most prominent radical scientists.”—The Guardian
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