Ocean Book of the Month
Every month, The Ocean Project highlights a book focused on our blue planet or environmental sustainability. Books for all age groups will be covered, non-fiction and fiction, prose and poetry. If you have a suggestion, please let us know.
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
by Vendana Shiva
In Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva writes well about the connections between humanity’s most urgent crises — food insecurity, peak oil, and climate change — and why any attempt to solve one crisis without addressing the others will likely get us nowhere.
Condemning industrial biofuels and agriculture as recipes for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva champions the small independent farm instead. With millions going hungry and the earth's future at peril, only sustainable, biologically diverse farms that are more resistant to disease, drought, and flood can both feed and safeguard the world for generations to come. Soil Not Oil compassionately envisions a return to mindful agricultural principles — and a world based on self-organization, community, and environmental justice.
Using Shiva's organization Navdanya — praised by Barbara Kingsolver as "a small, green Eden framed against the startling blue backdrop of the Himalayas" — as a model, Soil Not Oil lays out principles for feeding the planet that are socially just and environmentally sound. Shiva then expands her analysis to broader issues of globalization and climate change, arguing that a healthy environment and a just world go hand in hand. Unwavering and truly visionary, Soil Not Oil proposes a solution based on self-organization, sustainability, and community rather than corporate power and profits.
A world-renowned environmental leader and thinker, Vandana Shiva is the author of many books, including Earth Democracy, Water Wars, and Staying Alive. She is the editor of Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed.
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