The uprising of conscience
The uprising of conscience. The 2011 festival speech that was not held is a book by the Swiss sociologist and globalization critic Jean Ziegler . It was published by Ecowin Verlag in 2011 . The main focus is on world hunger and the lack of support from the global north.
Originally, The Rising of Conscience was planned as a speech. But the speech was never officially given. Ziegler was invited to give the opening speech at the Salzburg Festival in 2011 , but was invited again shortly before by the State of Salzburg.
context
In 2011 the politician, sociologist and author Ziegler was a member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council. Prior to that, he was UN special rapporteur on the right to food between 2000 and 2008 .
In a video that appeared after the speech, Ziegler mentions that, in his opinion, he was unloaded due to pressure from major Swiss corporations and major banks. These were important sponsors of the festival. The civil society platform asked Ziegler to write down the speech that had not been given anyway. In the recorded video, in which Ziegler gives the speech afterwards, he thanks the “incredibly lively dynamic Austrian civil society”, the Austrian Green Party and the Ecowin Verlag. He published the speech as a book shortly after the cancellation.
content
"Every five seconds a child under the age of ten dies of starvation, 37,000 people starve to death every day, almost a billion are permanently and severely malnourished." The figures mentioned came from the UN World Food Report at the time . In the following minutes, Ziegler explained that the same World Food Report also showed that the entire world agriculture could theoretically feed 12 billion people normally. Ziegler concluded that a child who starves to death in these times is a child who will be murdered. He goes on to explain how starvation occurs and how it could happen that the areas in which the hunger crisis was so prevalent at that time were so dry that there was no water and no cultivation of food.
In his speech, Ziegler also criticized the western world population. As a result of the financial crisis in 2008, payments made by western democracies to the World Food Program fell drastically.
effect
In 2011 Salzburg's then Governor Gabi Burgstaller criticized the cancellation of the speech . She would have found the speech "an important and welcome addition to the opening of the festival". As a result of the cancellation, many German-language newspapers printed the original text of the speech. Among others the Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse , the German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Swiss weekly newspaper .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ecowin Verlag: The uprising of conscience. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
- ^ Ecowin publishing house: Jean Ziegler's non-held festival speech 2011: Der Aufstand des Gewissens 1/2. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Die Presse: The Festival Speech that was not held: The uprising of conscience. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
- ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Jean Ziegler: Speech not given at the opening of the Salzburg Festival. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Weekly newspaper: The uprising of conscience. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .