Oneness vs. the 1%

Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom

By: Vandana Shiva, Kartikey Shiva

Narrated by: Tia Rider

Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

Widespread poverty and malnutrition, an alarming refugee crisis, social unrest, and economic polarization have become our lived reality as the top one percent of the world’s seven-billion-plus population pushes the planet - and all its people - to the social and ecological brink.

In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the billionaires club of Gates, Buffet, and Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires whose blindness to the rights of people and to the destructive impact of their construct of linear progress have wrought havoc across the world. Their single-minded pursuit of profit has undemocratically enforced uniformity and monocultures, division and separation, monopolies and external control - over finance, food, energy, information, health care, and even relationships.

Basing her analysis on explosive, little-known facts, Shiva exposes the one percent’s model of philanthrocapitalism, which is about deploying unaccountable money to bypass democratic structures, derail diversity, and impose totalitarian ideas based on one science, one agriculture, and one history. She calls for the “resurgence of real knowledge, real intelligence, real wealth, real work, real well-being”, so that people can reclaim their right to: live free. Think free. Breathe free. Eat free.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2020 Vandana Shiva (P)2020 Chelsea Green Publishing

Must Read

This should be required reading for everyone, especially those that will be our future. It is now a food and agricultural system to benefit the few, and it will destroy us if we do not stand up to those in power that can stop it. Thank you Vandana Shiva!

A must read

Great information and very insightful. A must read for anyone that knows something os wrong with the current system.

Essential Reading

This book helped me out some puzzle pieces together on what is happening in our world and gave me hope on what can be done to save our communities and our humanity.

Important

absolutely vital information for anyone alive today. Shiva synthesis several decades of information across disciplines, and concludes by suggeating meaningful ways to take action

Bombshell

This is one of the most powerful books ever written. Thank you Vandana and Kartikey, and Tia for the audio. Big love for all of you. We are in this together. <3

reader

do you like truth? 👍🤔😏👀😄
I do. this is amazing 👏🙌😍❤ word poetry.
so much knowledge

Brilliant book

This is the best book I’ve read in years. Vanda Shiva makes such a compelling evidence-based case for how the technological and reductionist model of science is really just a tool of colonization and the elite to further erase indigenous communities and indigenous wisdom while growing the wealth of the top 1% and creating the biggest inequality gap we have ever seen.

Enlightening with one caveat/suggestion

To say I admire Vandana Shiva is an understatement. This book is a wakeup call and she is standing up to large forces. This is a powerful read, yet at times it was difficult for me for the following reason. If you notice this too and it bothers you, press on. It's beyond worth it.

There are a lot of conclusions stated, especially in Chatper 1. The conclusions almost come across, to me, the way politicians call each other names in the media. Having said that, the book presents data and facts too. I wish the conclusion/statement part of the writing could be scaled back or removed because it's not needed to make the impact. I believe the book would be stronger without it and potentially be accessible to a wider audience.

I hung in there because I've heard Vandana speak in documentaries and online and she is an amazing speaker. She is also a true servant leader. I am grateful to her and her work. Strongly recommend.

Listen! Think! Get out of the fry pan!

This is a deeply distressing narrative that needs to be told. Loaded with facts and true history that has not yet been erased. If we go out with a whisper it is because we refused to see....

Bill Gates is an evil man.

Loved it. It's beautifully written. If you have any concern for the environment, read this book. Her intelligence exceeds many and this book offers more than just the problems, it offeres the solutions. Her voice needs to be louder. Highly recommended.