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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.
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You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.
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.
The environmental movement can only survive if it becomes a justice movement. As a pure environmental movement, it will either die, or it will survive as a corporate 'greenwash'. Anyone who's a sincere environmentalist can't stand that role.
You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
