Vandana Shiva Quotes - Page 3

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

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  Usual, Poor, Schemes

  Vandana Shiva (2016). “Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development”, p.123, North Atlantic Books

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• Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth’s resources and living processes.

  Vandana Shiva

  People, Earth, Green

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• Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.

  Vandana Shiva

  World, Poor, Circumstances

  "Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability And Peace". Book by Vandana Shiva, 2005.

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• It is often too late by the time the government reacts.

  Vandana Shiva

  Government, Too Late, Late

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• Food is the place where you begin.

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• The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people and to meet more needs. But it actually destroys more of the resources that we need in order to meet those multiple needs. If we shift to an ecological perception, a diversity perception, we realize that some of the instruments of which we are very proud are actually extremely primitive for dealing with nature. To me that is the great lesson of ecological awareness at the turn of the millennium.

  Vandana Shiva

  Order, Creating, Diversity

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.

  Vandana Shiva

  Thinking, Glamour, Globalization

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are created through relationships and processes. They are not inherent in electrons or photons or quanta any more than they are inherent in soil or trees or people. So my critique of reductionistic science is a critique that I have inherited from my scientific training. But it has been deepened by my experiences as an ecologist, in seeing the ecological destruction taking place today.

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  Ideas, People, Tree

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I absolutely get thrills from taking on these big guys and recognizing how, behind all their power, they are so empty. I just keep going at it. Each of these balloons does deflate. I’ve seen a lot of balloons get deflated in my life.

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  Guy, Doe, Balloons

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• I'm a woman, born the daughter of a feminist and the granddaughter of a feminist grandfather. I don't think I could have avoided working on women's issues. I don't do it as a career or profession; it's my very essence as a human being.

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  Daughter, Thinking, Essence

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a corporation. Over-the-fence exchanges have started to be treated as crimes. Or, if you need a biological pest control, you can no longer use the need seed in your back yard. Instead you have to depend on the Grace Corporation or some other entity. That kind of dependency basically leads to increased poverty and increased ecological destruction.

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  Years, Grace, Pay

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.

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  Army, Finance, Monopoly

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases we were admitting, and climate change is really the pollution of the engineering paradigm, when fossil fuels drove industrialism. To now offer that same mindset as a solution is to not take seriously what Einstein said: that you can't solve the problems by using the same mindset that caused them.

  Vandana Shiva

  Thinking, Engineering, Agriculture

  Source: www.nogeoingegneria.com

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• I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our rice in India, with either vegetables or meat or whatever.) Before you know it, every common use of plants will be patented by a Western corporation.

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  Taken, Vegetables, Corporations

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I do have fun. Even when I’m fighting I’m enjoying it: I think there’s nothing as exhilarating as protecting that which you find precious.

  Vandana Shiva

  Fun, Fighting, Thinking

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

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  Engineering, Mastery, Mindset

  Source: www.nogeoingegneria.com

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• Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

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  Diversity, Corporations, Wealth

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.

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  War, World, Leftovers

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• If you read Wall Street’s reports, they don’t talk of soya bean as originating in China. They don’t talk of soya bean as soya bean. They talk of Monsanto soya. Monsanto soya is protected by a patent. It has a patent number. It is therefore treated as a creation of Monsanto, a product of Monsanto’s intelligence and innovation.

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  Wall, Numbers, Innovation

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• I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't be able to patent what exists as "prior art." But the United States patent system is somewhat perverted. First of all, it does not treat the prior art of other societies as "prior art." Therefore anyone from the United States can travel to another country, find out about the use of a medicinal plant, or find a seed that farmers use, come back here, claim it as an invention or an innovation.

  Vandana Shiva

  Country, Art, Innovation

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell

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  Giving, Needs, Hell

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• I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be like [Albert] Einstein. He was my hero. I knew no physicists. I knew no scientists. I had nobody around me. And I went to a convent that didn't even have higher mathematics and physics. I taught myself these subjects in order to get into university.

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  Hero, Order, Years

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would even call them very patriarchal.

  Vandana Shiva

  Feminism, Kind, Term

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.

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  Issues, Justice, Population

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I do sculpting sometimes when I have the time, and the first thing I sculpted was a bust of [Albert] Einstein. It still sits on my table and still inspires me. He was a person who triggered my imagination and my ideas.

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  Ideas, Imagination, Inspire

  Source: scottlondon.com

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