Earth Democracy ─ Justice, Sustainability, and Peace

In Earth Democracy, world-renowned environmental activist and physicist Vandana Shiva calls for a radical shift in the values that govern democracies, condemning the role that unrestricted capitalism has played in the destruction of environments and livelihoods. Shiva updates the issues she helped bring to international attention—against genetic food engineering, culture theft, and natural resource privatization—uncovering their links to the rising tide of fundamentalism, violence against women, and planetary death. Struggles on the streets of Seattle and Cancun and in homes and farms across the world have yielded a set of principles based on inclusion, nonviolence, reclaiming the commons, and freely sharing the earth’s resources. These ideals, which Shiva calls “Earth Democracy,” serve as an urgent call to peace and as the basis for a just and sustainable future.

VANDANA SHIVA is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist and a tireless crusader for economic, food, and gender justice. She is the author and editor of many influential books, includingStolen Harvest, Making Peace with the Earth, Soil Not Oil, Water Wars, and Globalization's New Wars. Shiva is the recipient of more than 20 international awards, among them the Right Livelihood Award (1993); the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008); and the Calgary Peace Prize (Canada, 2011).