| Event Name | Vandana Shiva - Hagey Lecture |
| Organization | Waterloo Public Interest Research Group |
| Region | Kitchener-Waterloo |
| Date | Wednesday, Oct 21 |
| Location | Humanities Theatre, Hagey Hall, UW |
| Start Time | 8:00 p.m. |
| End Time | 10:00 p.m. |
| Event Info | Earth Democracy: Beyond dead democracy and
killing economies
Humanity is besieged with crises on every front. There is financial
meltdown, a climate meltdown and a social meltdown. The financial meltdown
added to the crisis that had already been engendered by corporate
globalisations. Climate chaos is the externality of an economic system with
a heavy ecological footprint, extracting resources limitlessly from the
planet and then dumping waste back on the planet. The dominant economy has
become a killing economy both in terms of its impact on the planet and its
impact on people. Politics is no more able to correct a economic system
which has gone out of control because corporations driving the economy are
also driving politics by hijacking the state and creating a corporate
state. Representative democracy has thus mutated from being "of the people,
for the people, by the people" into "of the corporations, for the
corporations, by the corporations". Democracy as we know is dying and
taking on the shape of corporate dictatorship on one hand and violent
extremist responses from the excluded elements of society on the other
hand. The triple crisis needs a new imagination which transforms the
dominant economic systems, political systems and socio-cultural systems
into living systems that serve the planet and people. I call this
re-imagining of society "Earth Democracy". |
| Type | Conference |
| Event Website | http:// |
| Organization Info | WPIRG is a student funded and directed organization whose mission is to provide a framework and support for students to research, educate, and take action on environmental and social justice issues. |
| Email | info@wpirg.org |
| Organization Website | http://wpirg.org |
| Phone Number | (519) 888-4882 |
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