domingo, 21 de setembro de 2008

Vandana Shiva Decries the “Outsourcing of Pollution to the Third World”


Vandana Shiva on Democracy Now

We speak world-renowned environmental leader and thinker, Vandana Shiva about India and global resource depletion. Shiva says, “India is one of the preferred spots for outsourcing of all the pollution and energy-intensive production of the world. We hear of outsourcing of jobs and informational technology sector. We don’t often enough hear about the outsourcing of pollution to the third world.”
Vandana Shiva, world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. She is also a physicist and ecologist and the Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology. She is the founder of Navdanya – “nine seeds”, a movement promoting diversity and use of native seeds. Dr. Shiva was the 1993 recipient of the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize–the Right Livelihood Award. And she is the author of many books, her latest is “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace.”