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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
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.
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.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.
It is not an investment if it destroys the planet
Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
