Soil, Not Oil - 9781783607709

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Soil, Not OilClimate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity\nAuthor(s): Vandana Shiva\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Zed Books Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781783607709, 978-1783607709\nSynopsis\n'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.'\nThe Guardian\n\nThis book is classic of the environmental movement. In it, Vandana Shiva envisions a world beyond our current dependence on fossil fuels and globalization, and makes the compelling case that food crises, oil dependency and climate change are all inherently interlinked. Any attempt to solve one without addressing the others is therefore doomed to failure.\n\nCondemning industrial agriculture and biofuels as recipes for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva instead champions small independent farmers. What is needed most, in a time of hunger and changing climates, are sustainable, biologically diverse farms that are better able to resist disease, drought and flooding. Calling for a re.