Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace

Boldly confronting the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, world-renowned physicist and activist Vandana Shiva responds with Earth Democracy, or, as she prophetically names it, “The People’s Project for a New Planetary Millennium.” A leading voice in the struggle for global justice and sustainability, here Shiva describes what earth democracy could look like, outlining the bedrock principles for building living economies, living cultures and living democracies. Starting from the initial enclosure of the commons—the privatization of six million acres of public land in eighteenth-century Britain—Shiva goes on to reveal how the commons continue to shrink as more and more natural resources are patented and fenced.