Im Afshin Rattansi and youre watching another lockdown edition of going underground in the wake of a himalayan glasgow breaking away causing an avalanche in the Northern State of attack and in india but i was that involving hundreds linked to billions that alone perhaps the largest workers strike in Human History taking place joining a Global Pandemic joining me now is one of the worlds foremost environmentalist scholars and activists who founded the Research Foundation for Science Technology and Natural Resource policy focus on that and she joins me now from new delhi vandana welcome to going underground again albeit a little down addition there is actually news here from india they havent explicitly calling it an environmental catastrophe let alone its links to dams and Infrastructure Projects what have you made of this dreadful tragedy in the himalayas involving a glass. Well you know i am from this region of with reckoned with again she starts i became a volunteer for shit cause wh
Definitely not mentioned linked to this tragedy in the himalayas has been connected i think by everyone to the largest what some say are the largest workers strikes in Human History it just recap what on earth is being going on over the past 16 months because in very little of all coverage in nato nations if you look at only the last 6 months you want to understand whats going on because this started in 1901 when the world bank with conditionalities having got us into debt for the green revolution the chemical agriculture the fertilizers the dams and the 90000000000 debt we had and then they put structural adjustment and there were elements of structural adjustment they said you have to remove will stop holding the past limits you have to remove price regulation you have to get rid of the regulated markets which are run by corporate chips of treatise and pharmacies and governed by the Regional Governments not by the centralized government this india such a large country every region ha
The last 6 months you want to understand whats going on because this started in 1901 when the world bank with conditionalities having got us into debt for the green revolution the chemical agriculture the fertilizers the dams and the 90000000000 debt we had and then they put structural adjustment and there were elements of structural adjustment they said you have to remove will stop holding the past limits you have to remove price regulation you have to get rid of the regulated markets which are run by corporate chips of treatise and farmers and governed by the Regional Governments not by the centralized government this india such a large country every region has a different type because if you crop differences to be you should system and you can have one uniform button but now not only do we have one uniform back to india mr gates my favorite person these days says he wants one its one for the whole work so the world by this package together and this means resistance against this but
States more farmers in spite of the global powers wanting to grab the land and turn us into a large fund desert like the midwest of the United States is because of. This in africa saw all this love for india and this pride in feeding this country did it right in feeding 1300000000 i can tell you the us mother cannot feed 1300000000 the Indian Palmers have done it and i take pride in this. Well as you say the movement certainly has grown in the quarter of a 1000000000 people now on the streets but the world bank would no doubt say ok there were mistakes made back then with there are. In ideological policies they reform to an extent another thrown around or modi indias leader he claims that is exactly what the farmers are protesting about they should be celebrating because it gives them more autonomy and reduces that taxes well in the infamous dont pay taxes weve kept agriculture because because agriculture so basic everything is not taxed in india so theres no issue of taxation as well
The last 6 months you want to understand whats going on because this started in 1901 when the world bank with conditionalities having got us into debt for the green revolution the chemical agriculture the fertilizers the dams and the 90000000000 debt we had and then they put structural adjustment and there were elements of structural adjustment they said you have to remove will stop holding the past limits you have to remove price regulation you have to get rid of the regulated markets which are run by corporate chips of treatise and farmers and governed by the regional governments not by the centralized government this in just such a large country every region has a different type because if you crop the differences to be you should system and you can have one uniform button but now not only do we have one unit going back to india mr gates my favorite person these days says he wants one its one for the whole work so the one by one ringback this package together and this means resistan