Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shivais an Indian scholar, environmental activist and anti-globalization author. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than twenty books...
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world poor circumstances
Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances
war leftovers world
We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.
government people world
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.
inspirational inspiring world
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
engineering world saving
Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
people trying world
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.
issues justice world
Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.
diversity corporations wealth
Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.
people earth green
Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth’s resources and living processes.
abuse earth ecological-crisis
The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.
business technology management
The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live
sky democracy bombs
democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.
diversity resistance celebration
We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.
citizens disappear states
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.