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In this inspirational and well-researched essay, Vandana Shiva confronts the club of billionaires – Gates, Buffet, Zuckerberg and other modern emperors – and denounces the destructive impact of the model of linear economic development pursued by the multinationals that they have created. For their insatiable pursuit of profit has undemocratically established uniformity and monocultures, division and separation, monopolies and domination of one another - in areas as diverse as finance, food , energy, information, health and even human relations. Based on often overlooked facts – and in particular on the role of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – Vandana Shiva analyzes how so-called "philanthropy" has become the way to circumvent democratic structures, prevent diversity and to impose totalitarian ideas, driven by a single vision of science, agriculture and history. It calls for the "resurgence of real knowledge, real intelligence, real wealth, real work, real well-being", so that each of us can claim the right to live, think, breathe and eat freely. Translated from English (India) by Agnès El Kaïm. Vandana Shiva's manifesto against the power of multinationals and the ultra-rich.