Punjab used to be the most prosperous agricultural region in India. Today every farmer is in debt and despair. Vast stretches of land have become water-logged desert. Elder town members say that even the trees have stopped bearing fruit because heavy use of pesticides have killed the pollinators - the bees and butterflies. And Punjab is not alone in experiencing this ecological and social disaster Farmers who traditionally grew pulses and millets and paddy have …
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…rules of justice and sustainability, of compassion and sharing. We have to move from market totalitarianism to an earth democracy. We can survive as a species only if we live by the rules of the biosphere. The biosphere has enough for everyone's needs if the global economy respects the limits set by sustainability and justice. As Gandhi had reminded us: "The earth has enough for everyone's needs, but not for some people's greed". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**