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I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.
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.
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
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.
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.
Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.
Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
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.
