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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
It is not an investment if it destroys the planet
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.
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.
Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
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.
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.
I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from the base-line - their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit - profits extracted at the cost of life.
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.
