When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic.… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
My travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology. They are not really different, except that… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didnt meet anyone who had ever done… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive ,… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The role of geo-engineering should, in a world of responsibility, in a world of scientifically enlightened decision making and ecological understanding, it… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because it creates… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war.… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
