Video link: Why Nature Has Rights

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Hello Friends, I strongly recommend the following videoconference to the community: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8SvBOIcjw Many environmental subjects are discussed, including water related issues. Resume: Vandana Shiva with Maude Barlow, Cormac Cullinan, Pablo Solon. Moderated by David Harvey and the co-authors of the book: The Rights of Nature. They discuss how to transform our relationship with the environment to address climate change and related problems like natural disasters. The rights-based approach to nature they advocate is being discussed at the UN. Vandana Shiva is an Indian philosopher, environmentalist, and feminist, Maude Barlow is a water activist and Chair of The Council of Canadians, Cormac Cullinan is an environmental lawyer based in South Africa, Pablo Solon is the Ambassador of Bolivia to the UN, David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at CUNY Graduate Center. Enjoy,

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  1. It says go back to nature, the natural ways are always good but I want to discuss with the group members that do they think that organic farming can feed the hunger of this world?

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    1. Also, it seems to me that the UN recently recognized that agroecology and organic farming had the potential to feed populations. The agro-industrial tertiary model does not properly work: we need less agribusiness and more family farms. Moreover, many farmers are aging so youngsters should take over agriculture. After all, we humans are heterotrophic organisms: that's why no one can boycott food. I have the ambition to own a small farm where I could grow a large diversity of complementary crops. I would like to do it in the Pacific, where several harvests are possible in a single year.

    2. Hello Gema, I actually think that local organic farming is the ONLY way to sustainably feed humanity. Vandana Shiva partly explains why in the following interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qO8vLAGB3M Intensive monocultures seem completely inefficient when it comes to ressource management, especially arable lands.