Dienstag, 14. Dezember 2010

989 Time to end war against the earth: Stop the one-purpose enterprise! Reflections on Gaia.



 
"Nicht nur mittels der Kunst (vgl. 988), sondern auch durch eigenes Sinnieren einmal weg von der ernüchternden Wirklichkeit": So lautete anfänglich die Überschrift dieses Eintrags. Den ich dann unter Einbeziehung einer in meinem Infolabor aus Indien eingetroffenen eMail unter das jetzt dort stehende Thema gestellt habe.

Ernüchternd ist so vieles. Beispielsweise, dass die Regierung - oder etwa auch die Klosterkammer - ganz viele Menschen einfach im Regen stehen lässt. Oder dass die Hells Angels sich ungeniert überall breitmachen können - dabei von den Ordnungskräften, speziell den Gerichten, ordentlich unterstützt in ihrem Bemühen, möglichst viel Angst zu verbreiten, um so ihre dunklen Machenschaften weiter betreiben zu können.

Obwohl ich mich in der Lage sehe, unabhängig von den Statements anderer zu recht ergiebigen Befunden zu gelangen. bringe ich hier, bevor eigene Überlegungen zu der gewählten Thematik angestellt werden, die in meinem Infolabor aus Indien eingetroffene Mail zuerst, um dann auch noch die Treffer festzuhalten, die sich bei der Suchanfrage "one-purpose enterprise" und "Gaia, der Erdgeist" ergeben - letztere selber gar nicht weiter einsehend:


Time to end war against the earth
Vandana Shiva
November 4, 2010
SMH

When we think of wars in our times, our minds turn to Iraq and Afghanistan. But the bigger war is the war against the planet. This war has its roots in an economy that fails to respect ecological and ethical limits - limits to inequality, limits to injustice, limits to greed and economic concentration.

A handful of corporations and of powerful countries seeks to control the earth's resources and transform the planet into a supermarket in which everything is for sale. They want to sell our water, genes, cells, organs, knowledge, cultures and future. The continuing wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and onwards are not only about"blood for oil". As they unfold, we will see that they are about blood for food, blood for genes and biodiversity and blood for water.

The war mentality underlying military-industrial agriculture is evident from the names of Monsanto's herbicides - ''Round-Up'', ''Machete'', ''Lasso''. American Home Products, which has merged with Monsanto, gives its herbicides similarly aggressive names, including ''Pentagon'' and ''Squadron''.This is the language of war. Sustainability is based on peace with the earth.

The war against the earth begins in the mind. Violent thoughts shape violent actions. Violent categories construct violent tools. And nowhere is this more vivid than in the metaphors and methods on which industrial, agricultural and food production is based. Factories that produced poisons and explosives to kill people during wars were transformed into factories producing agri-chemicals after the wars.

The year 1984 woke me up to the fact that something was terribly wrong with the way food was produced. With the violence in Punjab and the disaster in Bhopal, agriculture looked like war. That is when I wrote The Violence of the Green Revolution and why I started Navdanya as a movement for an agriculture free of poisons and toxics. Pesticides, which started as war chemicals, have failed to control pests.

Genetic engineering was supposed to provide an alternative to toxic chemicals. Instead, it has led to increased use of pesticides and herbicides and unleashed a war against farmers. The high-cost feeds and high-cost chemicals are trapping farmers in debt - and the debt trap is pushing farmers to suicide. According to official data, more than 200,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide in India since 1997.
 
Making peace with the earth was always an ethical and ecological imperative. It has now become a survival imperative for our
species.

Violence to the soil, to biodiversity, to water, to atmosphere, to farms and farmers produces a warlike food system that is unable to feed people. One billion people are hungry. Two billion suffer food-related diseases - obesity, diabetes, hypertension and cancers.

There are three levels of violence involved in non-sustainable development. The first is the violence against the earth, which is expressed as the ecological crisis. The second is the violence against people, which is expressed as poverty, destitution and displacement. The third is the violence of war and conflict, as the powerful reach for the resources that lie in other communities and countries for their limitless appetites.

When every aspect of life is commercialised, living becomes more costly, and people are poor, even if they earn more than a dollar a day. On the other hand, people can be affluent in material terms, even without the money economy, if they have access to land, their soils are fertile, their rivers flow clean, their cultures are rich and carry traditions of producing beautiful homes and clothing and delicious food, and there is social cohesion, solidarity and spirit of community.

The elevation of the domain of the market, and money as man-made capital, to the position of the highest organising principle for societies and the only measure of our well-being has led to the undermining of the processes that maintain and sustain life in nature and society.

The richer we get, the poorer we become ecologically and culturally. The growth of affluence, measured in money, is leading to a growth in poverty at the material, cultural, ecological and spiritual levels.

The real currency of life is life itself and this view raises questions: how do we look at ourselves in this world? What are humans for? And are we merely a money-making and resource-guzzling machine? Or do we have a higher purpose, a higher end? I believe that ''earth democracy'' enables us to envision and create living democracies based on the intrinsic worth of
all species, all peoples, all cultures - a just and equal sharing of this earth's vital resources, and sharing the decisions about the use of the earth's resources. Earth democracy protects the ecological processes that maintain life and the fundamental human rights that are the basis of the right to life, including the right to water, food, health, education, jobs and livelihoods.

We have to make a choice. Will we obey the market laws of corporate greed or Gaia's laws for maintenance of the earth's ecosystems and the diversity of its beings? People's need for food and water can be met only if nature's capacity to provide food and water is protected. Dead soils and dead rivers cannot give food and water. Defending the rights of Mother Earth is therefore the most important human rights and social justice struggle. It is the broadest peace movement of our times.

[Dr. Vandana Shiva is an Indian physicist, environmentalist and recipient of the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize. This is an edited version of her speech at the Sydney Opera House last night.]

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    Da ich es gewohnt bin, unabhängig von den Statements anderer zu welchem Fragenkreis auch immer bei einer Thematik anzusetzen, habe ich in keinen der vorstehend zu findenden Einträge hineingeschaut. Ich verlasse mich auch hier einfach auf meine Fähigkeit, selbständig zu Einsichten zu gelangen, von denen ich zuversichtlich annehme, dass sie zumindest von der/dem einen oder anderen der sie Wahrnehmenden nachvollzogen werden können.

    Ich gehe also davon aus, dass dem Statement "Alles ist mit Allem verknüpft" etwas abgewinnen können und dass Sie Ihre schönste Zeit mit Gaia verbringen können.

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