The Nature of Nature: the Metabolic Disorder of Climate Change

Food is the currency of life. The food web weaves the web of life, in co-operation and mutuality with the earth and nature. When this interdependence is ruptured the conditions for what Vandana Shiva calls the “metabolic disorder” for climate change come into being. Proposals put forward by Big Ag and Big Tech to solve the intertwined climate and food crises will exacerbate both, she says.
Shiva’s detailed unpacking of the promises made by technology-oriented, lab-intensive digital agriculture reveals the dangers posed by fake and ultra-ultra-processed foods—to the environment; to increasing greenhouse gas emissions; to the health of animals; and to our health and food security.