Why are more than ten thousand farmers in India committing suicide each year? Among the reasons, asserts the award-winning journalist P. Sainath, is neoliberal globalization. Also, Melissa Hart discusses the rejection by Colorado voters of a Ward Connerly-backed anti-affirmative action ballot initiative.
Colin Duncan, The Practical Equivalent of War? Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics
Colin Duncan, The Centrality of Agriculture: Between Humankind and the Rest of Nature McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996
Twentieth century civilization is about to collapse, argues Colin Duncan, because of the imminence of rapid and vast climate change. The environmental historian believes a mass collective project must arise to plan a necessary transition to a new sustainable society. Also, Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute describes oil exploration and extraction in Alberta's tar sands.
Whoever controls the future of seeds controls the future of life on earth. So asserts Claire Cummings in Uncertain Peril, which takes on industrial farming and genetic engineering and points the way toward a sustainable, earth-friendly agriculture. One of Cummings's heroes is Wes Jackson, who's working to transform the major grain crops into hardy, diverse perennials.
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