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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
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.
It is not an investment if it destroys the planet
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.
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.
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.
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.
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.
