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The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.
Vandana Shiva
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Vandana Shiva
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 5
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My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged at the turn of the last century. We are a whole century behind in absorbing the leaps that quantum theory made for the human mind.
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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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The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.
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Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
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It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of the people of this world. These 80 percent live on the biodiversity and the knowledge they have evolved as part of a rich collective heritage involving the use of seeds for growing crops and medicinal plants for healing.
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When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.
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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.
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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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Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
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Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
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Today the environmental movement has become opposed to issues of justice. You can see this in the way issues are framed. It's a permanent replay of jobs-versus-the-environment, in nature-versus-bread. These are extremely artificial dichotomies.
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