In this interview, social justice and anti-GMO advocate Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., discusses her ebook, “Oneness Vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom,” which she co-wrote along with her son, through which she argues that the ultra-wealthy elite are chargeable for a majority of the environmental, monetary and well being crises presently dealing with us.
In actuality, it is actually concerning the 0.001% — the small variety of billionaires and centibillionaires who’ve develop into ultra-rich over the previous 30 years or so. Most of them did not exist earlier than globalization. The 1% is only a helpful metaphor for the ruling elite that the writer thought can be simpler to speak.
One of the important thing gamers is, no shock, Bill Gates, whose wealth and “philanthropic” efforts have garnered him unprecedented affect over agriculture and world well being insurance policies that threaten meals safety and human well being.
“I used to be in Paris for the local weather summit, and I’ve been doing this UN Summit because the Earth summit in ’92. I’ve been doing the Biodiversity Convention, drafting of clauses, together with Article 19.1, which principally required biosafety and evaluation of GMOs. So, I used to be very shocked that, for the primary time, the billionaires have been on the stage with the heads of state,” she says.
One of the “options” to local weather change supplied by this billionaire membership was geoengineering, which in actuality isn’t any resolution in any respect. As famous by Shiva, if the local weather is already altering for the more severe, engineering temperatures, deflecting daylight, dumping iron fillings on the ocean and chemical substances within the sky, and creating synthetic volcanoes, you are merely creating further issues with out fixing the unique one.
At the tip of the August 2020 replace of the ebook, she additionally discusses COVID-19, and the way this engineered pandemic has catalyzed the switch of wealth to the wealthy. While world lockdowns have decimated small companies and left many to wrestle financially, the wealthy have amassed unbelievable earnings.