Outsourcing Global Pollution to India - Vandana Shiva

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/28/Vandana_Shiva_in_Conversation

Environmental researcher and activist Vandana Shiva points out that as India has taken on greater production of global goods, it has also taken on a proportionate amount of global pollution.

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Since the 1980s, Shiva has championed the anti-globalization movement and is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization. Her research and resultant advocacy explores the applicability of traditional Vedic knowledge and ecology to alleviate poverty in developing countries.

She is the founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology, an organization whose research has validated the ecological value of traditional farming and whose efforts have been instrumental in fighting destructive building projects in India.

Shiva has also been active in repositioning women in the debate on development, for which she received the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "Alternative Nobel Peace Prize."

Shiva has authored over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals and books include Biopiracy, Stolen Harvest, Monocultures of the Mind, and Water Wars. - City Arts and Lectures


Born in India in 1952, Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, she is the author of many books, including Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization (South End Press, 2001), Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (South End Press, 1997), Monocultures of the Mind (Zed, 1993), The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed, 1992), and Staying Alive (St. Martin's Press, 1989).

Shiva is a leader in the International Forum on Globalization, along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin. She addressed the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, 1999, as well as the recent World Economic Forum in Melbourne, 2000. In 1993, Shiva won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award). The founder of Navdanya ("nine seeds"), a movement promoting diversity and use of native seeds, she also set up the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in her mother's cowshed in 1997. Its studies have validated the ecological value of traditional farming and been instrumental in fighting destructive development projects in India .

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[abz48]

It is amazing how you completely miss the point here - she is saying that the Indians have nowhere to go, whereas the Europeans could leave for the colonies. If you feel anger over what Indian immigration there is, imagine how the Aborigines felt when the Europeans started arriving.

[neotoy]

India will soon learn what we have learned in the US. Current industrial and consumer practices in terms of the environment is insane and unsustainable. Eventually first world economies are going to run out of places to find cheap labor and dump their trash.

[pseudophile]

Excellent speaker. Fight against Codex Alimentarius and S. 510 "FDA Food Safety Modernization Act" which would eliminate local and raw foods through empty promises of safety. These regulations would bankrupt small farmers who try to offer diversity and choice.

[indinoodle]

@shamurshamur these countries are going down now. increased diseases and obesity, economic crash, depleting natural resources, polluted environment, ozone hole, water pollution, corruption and beaurcracy, govts. changing policy to meet business greed, high homicidal rate, unemployment inspite of a small population, etc. Research more. You see when you take from the ecosystem, you have to give it back too. Extreme industrialization doesn't realise that. Get industrial, but don't get greedy.

[indinoodle]

@shamurshamur High standard and low standard is only in your mind. I ideally want to live a little away from the hustle, noise and pollution(both environmental and mental) of the city and do my own bit of farming so that i can have pesticide free food and breathe clean air. That according to me is high standard, and those earning more but running around stressed and sick in the rat race have a low standard of living. See.... its all in the way you percieve. Btw, this lady lives in a village.

[indinoodle]

@shamurshamur This lady lives in a village and promotes organic farming to go large scale so that you can have chemical free food at reasonable prices and so that your children would not be born with lesser body resistance or deformities due to the harmful effects caused by chemicals to your genes. Not mentioning the animal that feed on this food, the ground water tht gets polluted. Doe her effort make sense now? Research more on "Monsanto".

[indinoodle]

@shamurshamur medical facilities are required to cure illnesses most of which are caused by greed leading to manufacture of chemicalised food and pollution - cancer, skin disorders, alcoholism, etc. Just dig deeper. For accidents and nake bites, the traditional vaidya (which is sadly a dying culture) did a must better and faster job. Baba Ramdev's therapies are an example. Now think do we really need to go against our ecosystem to be happy and be fed?

[indinoodle]

@blackiron60 I believe so too. Its a Karmic reaction and Indians are way too smart to be brainwashed by corporations. Hope and pray that this excessive greed to consume reduces. Without industriaization and completely based on natural ecofriendly ways, India had been the Golden bird for milleniums. There have been kings, and rich merchants and farmers who could feed their children. It doesn't require factories to develop, it requires knowledge and a reflection on our scientific Vedic past.

[indinoodle]

@shamurshamur Undying greed for money is evil. Patenting of basic right to grow food and eat is evil. It has come to a point in Indian cities where the Mc Donalds meal is cheaper then a home cooked nutritious meal - just like in the US. We should stop this greed for world domination of food supplies and killing of staple food crops as is being targetted by some corporations. They don't reaise but in the long run, they are unstabling their own nutrition supply.

[ketsstin24]

Guess am becoming an anti globalist..long way to go...need to be more informed!

[RudraHanuman]

@neotoy I wonder if India will ever learn this fact. or atleast it will be too late b4 we grasp and adapt 2 eco-friendly thing. added insanity... "all the first world countries dump their trash on us" !!!!!!!! phew

This world is a sphere..we can not trash & escape. No point. "What goes around will come around" - Karma