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Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.

Vandana Shiva

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Vandana Shiva
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 5
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Environmentalist
Philosopher
Politician
University Teacher
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Dehra Dun
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The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring yield of commodities, to health and well-being of ecosystems and communities. Industrial agriculture has its roots in war. Ecological agriculture allows us to make peace with the earth, soil and the society.
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The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.
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We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.
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For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying no to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.
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Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
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In India, crossbreeding programs aimed at mimicking the milk yields of Western cows like the Jerseys and the Holsteins actually breed out the capacity of our animals to pull ploughs and pulley-cars. So, thanks to cross-breeding programs, we now have humpless cattle with no stamina.
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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.
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Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
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To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet it’s growing extremely thin as a protector of people.
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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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Something is very, very wrong when people don’t have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.
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I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
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My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.
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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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You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
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One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasn’t there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.
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Biopiracy (is) biological theft illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
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I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.
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We're living in the anthropocene age and now human beings will be the shapers of our future, that totally control the overall functions of not just our planet, but our relationship with other planets.
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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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