It`s All for Sale – The Control of Global Resources

James Ridgeway is a staff writer for "The Village Voice." Among his many books are "The Pocket Guide to Environmental Bad Guys" (with Jeffrey St. Claire); "Red Light: Inside the Sex Industry" (with Sylvia Plachy); "Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture"; and "Powering Civilization: The Complete Energy Reader."

"James Ridgeway's "It's All for Sale" is a wake-up call to the human community of the consequences of an economic system whose appetites for raw material is limitless, and in which there are no limits, no boundaries about what is a commodity and what is not. The privatization and enclosure of biodiversity, of water, of air and the trade in human beings and human organs are indicators that we could be witnessing an end of being human. Essential reading for the ecology movement, the justice movement, the peace movement, and all who believe 'Our world is not for sale.'"--Vandana Shiva, founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in New Delhi, India

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Fresh Water 1
Fuels 9
Metals 41
Forests 81
Fibers 89
Fertilizers 97
Foods 100
Flowers 143
Drugs 149
Human Beings 167
The Sky 191
The Oceans 198
Biodiversity 205
Notes 211
Bibliography 227
Index 235