Heroes for a Better World

Maude Barlow
(1947-)

National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians
1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005
2005 Right Livelihood Award Winner

World Future Council

birthdate: May 19
birthplace:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

QUOTES

"We know that 5 million people, most of them children, die every year from illnesses caused by poor drinking water. "If we do not change our ways, by the year 2025, as much as two-thirds of the world will be living in either water scarcity or total water deprivation."

What makes the WTO so powerful and so dangerous is that it has both the legislative and judicial power to challenge the laws, policies and programs of countries that do not conform to the lowest common denominator rules set by the WTO and to strike them down if they're seen as being hostile to unregulated trade.

the WTO has become the most powerful tool of transnational capital.

At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale. Economic freedom -- not democracy, and not ecological stewardship -- is the defining metaphor of the WTO and its central goal is humanity's mastery of the natural world through its total commodification.

The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind.

Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.

no piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems and that a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.

We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species. We have envisaged a moral alternative to economic globalization and we will not rest until we see it realized.

"I go crazy when I see certain things and I have to find out why they happen. And I have to tell people. I have to do something so that other people will also take action."

"Under the current model of globalization, everything is for sale. Areas once considered our common heritage are being commodified, commercialized and privatized at an alarming rate. Today, more than ever before, the targets of this assault comprise the building blocs of life as we know it on this planet, including freshwater, the human genome, seeds and plant varieties, the air and atmosphere, the oceans and outer space. The assault on, and defence of, the commons is one of the great ideological and social struggles of our times."
-- Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke

 


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