Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on Becoming Untameable /212

This past year has forced many of us to transfer our practices into the digital realm, and while this has been done for the safety of our communities, billionaires and tech giants have no desire to see us sever ourselves from the perceived convenience technology provides us. So we must ask ourselves, to what extent does our quality of life become reduced when we relinquish our sovereignty for the sake of convenience? How does our reliance on technology diminish our collective skillset? Our relationship with Earth? Our ways of thinking? In this week’s episode, Dr. Vandana Shiva joins us to discuss how we are being set up to become accessories to the digital world and how we can reclaim our intellectual freedom and sovereignty from the hands of digital dictatorship. Vandana provides us with compelling examples of Monsanto’s targeted erasure of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and simultaneous acquisition of the world’s largest data corporations, and the correlation between philanthrocapitalism and the World Intellectual Property Organization. Dr. Vandana Shiva is a leader in the International Forum on Globalisation and of the Slow Food Movement, the current Director of Navdanya and of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology. Her latest book is Oneness vs the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Future. Music by John Newton, Lady Moon and The Eclipse, and Dzidzor. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references and action points.