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It is almost a given that the industrialised countries, the North, are the epitome of progress and wisdom. The South, the Third World, is a place of backwardness and ignorance, but it does have lots of resources. The North wants to use those resources to continue to enrich itself. Today parts of the South are redefining and challenging conventional notions of growth and development. There is resistance to the destructive effects of transnational corporations and global capitalism and a new awareness of the value of indigenous knowledge and centuries-old diverse agriculture.
Vandana Shiva of India is a leading voice for sustainable development and social justice. A Renaissance type woman, she's an internationally renowned physicist, philosopher, social and environmental activist and feminist and a featured speaker at major environmental conferences in the US and around the world. She is the author of Staying Alive, The Violence of the Green Revolution, Monocultures of the Mind, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge and Stolen Harvest.
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