Movement Quotes by Vandana Shiva

11 Movement quotes by Vandana Shiva

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Vandana Shiva views movement through the lens of ecological balance and social justice. In this concise set, her words stress the need for grassroots action to protect the planet and empower communities.

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The environmental movement can only survive if it becomes a justice movement. As a pure environmental movement, it will either die, or…

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My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I…

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Today the environmental movement has become opposed to issues of justice. You can see this in the way issues are framed. It's…

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The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them…

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We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in…

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I saw brilliant ideas coming out of the [Chipko] movement that needed better articulation, that needed elaboration and systematic analysis. I just…

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When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was…

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When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline…

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We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the…

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One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common…

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We have to build movements in the face of trade retaliation on the basis of people's democratic rights, on the basis of…

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Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would…

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In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war.…

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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…

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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…

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Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows…

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Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

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For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and…

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I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal…

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