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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.
It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.
When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.
Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.
Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
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.
