Vandana Shiva is a physicist, world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, and a tireless crusader for economic, food, and gender justice. She is the author and editor of many influential books, including Making Peace with the Earth, Earth Democracy, Soil Not Oil, Stolen Harvest, Water Wars, and Globalization’s New Wars. Dr. Shiva is the recipient of more than twenty international awards, among them the Right Livelihood Award (1993); the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008); The Sydney Peace Prize (2010); and the Calgary Peace Prize (Canada, 2011). In addition, she is a board member of the World Future Council and one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (whose other members include Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, and Jeremy Rifkin). She travels frequently to speak at conferences around the world.
“Biopiracy is a path-breaking work on one of the most important
issues of the coming century.… Vandana Shiva's inspiring book is a
clarion call … (that) should be widely read and discussed by
everyone concerned by the fate of the Earth.”
—Jeremy Rifkin, author of The Third Industrial Revolution: How
Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
and The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the
Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
“With her characteristic blend of analysis and passion, Vandana
Shiva traces the continuity from the European colonization of
'native' peoples … to the present appropriation of the natural
resources they need for their physical and cultural survival. An
important book that should be read by anyone wanting to understand
the global threat posed by the technological transformations of
organisms, cells, and molecules and by their exploitation and
profit.”
—Ruth Hubbard, professor emerita of biology, Harvard University
“Shiva is a burst of creative energy, an intellectual power.”
—The Progressive
“One of the world’s most prominent radical scientists.”
—The Guardian
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