Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.

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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.

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When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.

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Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.

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A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.

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We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.

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Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

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Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.

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It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.

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Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

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