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Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on Diverse Expressions of a Living Earth /311

Vandana and Ayana piece apart the threads of our global culture that lead to exploitation and extraction - focusing on the policies of division and distraction that keep us from each other. The divisions that world-leaders focus so much time on are created in order to dominate and exploit the nature on which the earthly community depends.

Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on the Promise of the Commons /280

Dr. Shiva warns that the ruling class operates from a place of fear of any being alive and free on their own terms. We end this conversation with a call to a paradigm shift away from capitalism, control and fear to one of partnership with the earth.

Climate Solutions, Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Food Sovereignty, Global South, Multispecies Justice, The Cost of CapitalismFor The WildMarch 30, 2022biodiversity, commons, GMOs, seeds, seed saving, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Vandana Shiva, Navdanya, Earth School, food, earth, life, food sovereignty, Indigenous food sovereignty, diversity, India, reclaiming, health, Monsanto, Gates, microbiome, toxins, glyphosate, GMO, globalization, late-stage capitalism, peasant movements, farming, farmers movements, gardening, collapse, capitalism, health under capitalism, health under colonialism, climate change, colonialism, Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Indigenous Wisdom, and the Rights of Mother Earth, Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy: A Global Citizens’ Report on the Corporate Control of Technology, Health, and Agriculture, reclaiming the commons bookComment

ZAYAAN KHAN on the Place of Sweet Waters, Part 2 /84

We meet with Zayaan Khan to discuss water scarcity in South Africa and a point of no return at which culture can change rapidly. Suddenly people become accustomed to the unthinkable —no showering! no laundry!— and they begin to ask, how could we have ever been so wasteful, so indulgent?

Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Decolonization, Global SouthFor The WildJuly 12, 2018thresholds, resilient systems, diversity, collapse, Adaptive Cycle, South Africa, climax state, available energy, natural disasters, capitalism, wild water wild iceComment

ZAYAAN KHAN on the Place of Sweet Waters, Part 1 /83

With Zayaan, we trace the ways that the white colonization of South Africa not only destroyed the complexities of the human-to-land relationship, but also continues to ignore the intricacies and connectivity of the landscape and how South Africa is still living within the echo chamber of a shockingly repressive colonial system

Decolonization, Global South, Colonial Violence, The Cost of CapitalismFor The WildJuly 5, 2018thresholds, resilient systems, diversity, collapse, Adaptive Cycle, South Africa, climax state, available energy, natural disasters, capitalism, wild water wild ice Comment

ANDREW HARVEY on Confronting Crisis with Divine Dignity /30

Andrew Harvey gives us a map of mystical teachings to help us navigate the dark night of the soul and to emerge as empowered Earth defenders.

An Anthology of the Anthropocene.

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