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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. That’s what globalization is about: Find markets where you can.

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Vandana Shiva
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 5
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