Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar is an Indian activist and editor. He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate, pacifist, and is the current editor of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies, and of The Small School. His most notable accomplishment is a peace walk with a companion to the capitals of four of the nuclear-armed countries – Washington, London, Paris and Moscow, a...
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth9 August 1936
animal long needs
It doesn't matter where or how it is grown as long as it is packaged in plastic, put on the supermarket shelves, and bought as a commodity. In the New Story food is not commodity. Food is sacred. We need to be connected with soil, with animals that we take care of.
earth goes-on environment
If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.
rain ocean cutting
Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can put animals in factory farms and slaughter them as we like. We can over-fish the oceans. We can pollute the rivers. We can pollute the water and change climate. We are somehow superior to nature. We are somehow rulers of nature.
together measurement stories
The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
jobs children thinking
The children are being conditioned to think that the purpose of life is to get a good job. You get paid but you don't get satisfaction from your work.
thinking animal order
We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others are violence. In order to reduce individual acts of physical violence, we must work to eliminate violence at all levels, mental, verbal, personal, and social, including violence to animals, plants, and all other forms of life.
spiritual technology emotional
When you come to the spiritual needs, the emotional needs, the needs of our inner life, then politics and business and technology are completely impotent. They are completely unable to meet and address the needs of human beings.
moving wind people
People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition town' movement. There are three hundred towns in Britain that are making this transition. Taking energy from solar power, from wind power, from water power.
children destiny giving
Your children are not your children. They are lives longing for itself. They come here with their own destiny. Give them your love. They will find their own way.
compassion hands skills
You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.
needs moments here-and-now
We need to learn to live in the here and now; this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.
mean consciousness commodity
We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.
earth pesticides should
Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food should be local, organic rather than grown with chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides.
self challenges goes-on
In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.