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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 economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from the base-line - their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit - profits extracted at the cost of life.
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Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind.
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.
I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and in the same ways that we find solutions to sustainability. Sustainability on environmental grounds and justice in terms of everyone having a place in the production and consumption system - these are two aspects of the same issue. They have been artificially separated and have to be put back again in the Western way of thinking.
That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.
