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Resources Quotes by Vandana Shiva

8 Resources quotes by Vandana Shiva

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When you need a quick glimpse into how Vandana Shiva frames the idea of resources, this short set offers a clear snapshot. Though brief, each line captures a facet of her thinking, giving you enough material to feel the pulse of her stance without overwhelming you.

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We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources…

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Gandhis idea of swadeshithat local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic…

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The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is…

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The director of the institute where I was working apologized about these young, enthusiastic researchers when the World Bank visited because he…

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The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase…

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Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is…

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There are scarcities in drinking water when you pollute the groundwater with nitrates. There is a scarcity in diversity when you create…

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The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people…

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The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because it creates…

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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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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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My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the…

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Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.

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The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think its time we…

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Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our…

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The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

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