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The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.

Vandana Shiva

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Vandana Shiva
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 5
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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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The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.
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The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
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Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
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The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.
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Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
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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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In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
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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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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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We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
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I saw brilliant ideas coming out of the [Chipko] movement that needed better articulation, that needed elaboration and systematic analysis. I just followed that and it's been very exciting.
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We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
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It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.
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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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In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!
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Gandhi’s idea of swadeshi—that local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic element of freedom—is becoming increasingly relevant. We cannot afford to forget that we need self-rule, especially in this world of globalization.
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I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the way to learn nature. So my travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology.
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When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work the hardest in the world end up being the poorest - I can't just sit back and not try to understand why the gaps between people are increasing, or why there are so many homeless and hungry people in the world.
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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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