[bksvol-discuss] Submitted/nonfiction

  • From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:29:14 -0400

Hi all,

I've just submitted for proofing "Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability
and Peace" by Vandana Shiva.

It's been read and spell-checked. All headers stripped, page numbers/chapter
titles present, fonts adjusted, footnotes formatted. 
208 pages.

Description:
Boldly confronting the neoconservative Project for the New American Century,
world-renowned physicist and activist Vandana Shiva responds withEarth
Democracy, or, as she prophetically names it, "The People's Project for a
New Planetary Millennium. " A leading voice in the struggle for global
justice and sustainability, here Shiva describes what earth democracy could
look like, outlining the bedrock principles for building living economies,
living cultures and living democracies.  Starting from the initial enclosure
of the commons-the privatization of six million acres of public land in
eighteenth-century Britain-Shiva goes on to reveal how the commons continue
to shrink as more and more natural resources are patented and fenced.
Accompanying this displacement from formerly accessible territory, she
argues, is a growing attitude of disposability that erodes our natural
resources, ecological sustainability and cultural diversity.  Worse, human
beings are by no means safe from this assignment of disposability.  Through
the forces of neoliberal globalization, economic and social exclusion work
in deadly synergy to perpetrate violence on vulnerable groups, extinguishing
the lives of millions.  Yet these brutal extinctions are not the only trend
shaping human history.  

Deborah


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