{"id":128798,"date":"2019-03-04T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=128798"},"modified":"2019-03-11T11:57:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:57:21","slug":"vandana-shiva-we-must-fight-back-against-the-1-percent-to-stop-the-sixth-mass-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/03\/vandana-shiva-we-must-fight-back-against-the-1-percent-to-stop-the-sixth-mass-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandana Shiva: We Must Fight Back against the 1 Percent to Stop the Sixth Mass Extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>22 Feb 2019 &#8211; <\/em>New research finds at least a third of the Himalayan ice cap will melt by the end of the century due to climate change, even if the world\u2019s most ambitious environmental reforms are implemented. A report released earlier this month by the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment warns rising temperatures in the Himalayas could lead to mass population displacements, as well as catastrophic food and water insecurity. The glaciers are a vital water source for the 250 million people who live in the Hindu Kush Himalaya range, which spans from Afghanistan to Burma. More than a billion-and-a-half people depend on the rivers that flow from the Himalayan peaks. We speak with world-renowned environmental leader and ecologist Dr. Vandana Shiva about climate change, seed sovereignty and her new book, \u201cOneness vs. the 1%.\u201d Shiva is an Indian scholar, physicist, and food sovereignty and seed freedom advocate. She was born in Doon Valley in the Himalayan foothills.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GwxOxQ1AOEg<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Member<\/a> Prof. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecofeminist, philosopher, activist, and author of more than 20 books and 500 papers. She is the founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and has campaigned for biodiversity, conservation and farmers\u2019 rights, winning the Right Livelihood Award [Alternative Nobel Prize] in 1993. She is executive director of the Navdanya Trust.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We speak with world-renowned environmental leader and ecologist Dr. Vandana Shiva about climate change, seed sovereignty and her new book, \u201cOneness vs. the 1%.\u201d Shiva is an Indian scholar, physicist, and food sovereignty and seed freedom advocate. She was born in Doon Valley in the Himalayan foothills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-members","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}