More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.
Today you have a situation where now the prescription is: People who dont have enough money to buy food should end up paying for their drinking water. That is going to be the kind of situation in which you will get more child labor. You will get more exploitation of women. Youre going to get an absolutely exploitative economy as the very basis of living becomes a source of capital accumulation and corporate growth. In fact, the chief of Coca-Cola in India said: Our biggest market in India comes from the fact that there is no drinking water left. People will have to buy Coca-Cola.
When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.
We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.
It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
