Today Quotes by Vandana Shiva

9 Today quotes by Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva channels her activist spirit into nine short reflections on current issues. Her words blend ecological awareness with a call for social justice in today’s world.

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An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent…

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The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a…

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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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For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are…

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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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I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own…

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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 primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the…

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Today you have a situation where now the prescription is: People who dont have enough money to buy food should end up…

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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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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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