16 min. documentary by Michael Stöger, feat. Vandana Shiva, Österreich 2008 — is available --in 8 languages, and with additional facts & figures!-- from www.momentaufnahme.at -- Not yet in IMDb (or is it?) -- PLAYLIST: www.youtube.com ===== " Die Loesung heisst: TEILEN . " / " The solution is: SHARING . " "You are lost if you forget that the fruits belong to everyone and the earth belongs to no one." -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "every minute... ... 70 bacres of forest are being cleared worldwide = 40 soccer pitches ... a mother dies giving birth ... 5 people die of AIDS ... 42000 tons of carbon dioxide are being blown into the atmosphere ... 380 tons of fish are being caught - 1/3 of it being uselessly killed "by-catch" ... 20 tons of plactic waste are being dumped into the seas of the world ... the worldwide cleavage between poor and rich is increasing further. At present, 1 billion people - one sixth of the world population - is living in shanty towns. " "It’s when we realize, as Ghandi said, "'the Earth has enough for everyone's need. What it doesn't provide for is a few people's greed.' The scarcity we experience in the form of poverty is the scarcity generated by an economy organized around the principle of greed, rewarding greed, and rewarding activities that increase greed, whether it is the greed of corporations or the greed of consumers. An economy based on greed must by necessity create poverty, because it will rob people of their share of resources of this Earth ...