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The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.
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Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
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.
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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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Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
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.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.
