Quotes by Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva

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.

Roots

Self

Thinking

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.

Earth

Two

Water

American firms are beginning to reproduce nonsustainable systems, to force the elite of India to become energy consumers of the kind that the U.S. has become. Thats what globalization is about: Find markets where you can.

Energy

India

Kind

Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India.

Energy

India

Looks

An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.

Agriculture

Today

War

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

Poor

Schemes

Usual

Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows and the cyclists. So for the first time the sacred cow in India, which used to be such a wonderful speed-breaker, is now seen as a nuisance. For the first time, Ive seen cows being hit and hurt. These guys just go right past, and if the cow is sitting on the road, they dont care. We cant afford to have a sacred car rather than a sacred cow.

Car

Hurt

Past

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

Corporations

Patents

Use

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

Engineering

Mastery

Mindset

Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

Diversity

Luxury

Survival

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Able

Abuse

Accountability

Accumulation

Age

Agriculture

America

Analysis

Animal

Apples

Army

Art

Atlas

Bacteria

Balance

Balloons

Believe

Blue

Bombs

Book

Boredom

Brotherhood

Business

Car

Care

Careers

Celebration

Children

Circles

Circumstances

Citizens

Class

Clever

Compassion

Corporations

Country

Creating

Creativity

Currency

Damage

Daughter

Democracy

Destroying

Details

Different

Dimensions

Disappear

Diversity

Doctors

Doe

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Quotes by Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva

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.

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.

American firms are beginning to reproduce nonsustainable systems, to force the elite of India to become energy consumers of the kind that the U.S. has become. Thats what globalization is about: Find markets where you can.

Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India.

An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

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