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Widespread poorness and malnutrition , an alarming refugee crisis , societal unrest , and economic polarization have become our lived realism as the top 1 % of the world ’s seven - billion - plus population pushes the satellite — and all its multitude — to the social and ecological brink .
InOneness vs. the 1 % , Vandana Shiva takes on the billionaire Club of Gates , Buffet , and Zuckerberg , as well as other New empire whose sightlessness to the rights of people , and to the destructive encroachment of their concept of analog progress , have sour havoc across the world .
Basing her analytic thinking on volatile , little - known facts , Shiva exposes the 1 % ’s mannequin of philanthrocapitalism , which is about deploy unaccountable money to bypass popular structures , derail diversity , and visit totalitarian ideas free-base on One Science , One Agriculture , and One story .
She call for the “ revival of real knowledge , real intelligence , literal wealth , literal study , real well - being , ” so that hoi polloi can reclaim their rightfield to : endure Free . consider Free . Breathe Free . Eat Free .
The following is an excerpt fromOneness vs. the 1%byVandana Shivaand Kartikey Shiva . It has been adapted for the web .
Seeding the Future
Seeding the future when potential extinction stares us in the font , seeding exemption when all freedoms of all beings are being close for the limitless exemption of the 1 % to overwork the earth and people , to manipulate life and our judgement , calls for a quantum leap in our imagery , our intelligence service , our capacity for compassion and love , as well as our courage for originative nonviolent resistance and non - cooperation with a organization that is drive us to extinction .
Our only pick is to heal the world , and in so doing , heal and reclaim our humankind , creating hope for our only futurity — as one humanity on one major planet . Stephen Hawking ’s two choice — become extinct or scarper from satellite earth to other planets , are not the only two futures useable to humanity.10
There is a third option beyond defunctness and escape , the alternative of rejuvenate the globe to be able-bodied to proceed to live here , in the particular places and the major planet we call menage . This is our evolutionary challenge . If we awaken to our own tidings and evolutionary potential , and the intelligence service riddle our planet and the existence we do not need to slip into the desperation and hopelessness of inevitable extinction , or the hubris of seduction and control over other planet .
Elon Musk want to create a Space X urban center on Mars : ‘ By utter about the Space X Mars computer architecture , I want to make Mars seem possible — make it seem as though it is something that we can do in our life , ’ he writes , adding , ‘ There really is a way that anyone could go if they wanted to . ’ Musk believe the threshold for a ego - support city on Mars would be one million masses . Current calculations suggest that it would take between 40 to 100 years ‘ to achieve a fully self - sustaining civilization on Mars.11
In less than the one hundred years that the master of the population would like one - eighth of the human universe to climb into a starship and elude to Mars ( there is , of course , no reference of the sleep of mankind and the rest of mintage ) humanity could renew the planet , rejuvenate the earth ’s ground , weewee , biodiversity , bring about a equilibrium between human being , and provide enough food for all .
For Musk , as for vending , there are only two key itinerary for mankind — that we stay on earth forever , finally succumb to an experimental extinction issue , or to become a ‘ infinite bearing - civilisation and a multi - world species ’ . Musk , like How the 1 % Subverts Democracy all men suffering from technological hubris , does not seem to see thatbeing a terrestrial citizen does not need space locomotion . It means being concious that we are part of the universe and the earth , and that we need to live in accordance with the jurisprudence of the existence , of the earth . The most key law is to recognise that we share the planet with other being , and that we have a obligation to care for our common home .
The strong-arm capacity to organise space flights has already been achieved . We now need to develop our planetary consciousness as earth citizens . The wide our knowingness , the diminished our bionomical footprint . I would translate for the contemporary evolutionary present moment Gandhi ’s distillation of universal ecologic responsibility when he said , ‘ The world provides enough for everyone ’s need , but not for a few mass ’s greed . ’ Today , we postulate to recognise that the earth provides enough for all organism and their next evolution . Extinction looks inevitable only in a worldview driven by greed , by hubris , by a mechanical , militarised intelligence for conquest . To assume that flying to Mars is adequate to creating liveliness on Mars , and construct a self - sustaining civilisation there is the bound of hubris and haughtiness , ignorance and numbness .
Both Hawking and Musk seem to have ignored the fact that the earth is a ego - get up , aliveness planet which make the conditions for its life and all the mintage that have develop on it .
That the earth, and every living being, the tiniest of cells, has the capacity to heal, renew, regenerate.
Hope comes from this electric potential , from the fact that we partake in the planet with zillion of coinage . It is irresponsible , immoral , and unethical to think that we can continue to trash the satellite and take to the woods to another one , even if it were to become technologically practicable to do so .
stay home is an ecological jussive mood , an honorable imperative . It is also a gleeful selection . It is the practice session of Oikonomia as the art of living . It is earth commonwealth in action , cultivating and expanding the freedoms of all organism .
10Chris McDermott , ‘ Stephen Hawking : We Have 100 Years to Find a New Planet ’ , Eco Watch . http://www.ecowatch.com/stephen-hawkingbbc-2392439489.html . print on May 4 , 2017 ; Sarah Knapton , ‘ Tomorrow ’s World recurrence To BBC with Startling Warning from Stephen Hawking – We Must forget Earth ’ , The Telegraph . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2025-02-10/tomorrows-world-returns-bbcstartling-warning-stephen-hawking/. issue on May 2 , 2017 .
11Hannah Osborne , ‘ Elon Musk uncover Vision for a SpaceX City on Mars ’ , Newsweek . http://www.newsweek.com/elonmusk-mars-spacex-martiancity-625994 . write on June 15 , 2017 .
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