“It's not an investment if it’s destroying the planet.”
Dr. Vandana Shiva is one of the most renowned scientists fighting for the un-globalisation of the world because she stands for diversity in agriculture.
Documentaries and/or Books:
Dr. Shiva has written more than 20 books but the most important book to read is Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply and her lastest book being One Earth, One Humanity Vs. the 1%.
TedTalks and Interviews:
2019 interview on Democracy Now
2012 TedTalk X Masala
2012 interview on Strombo.com
Birthday: 5 November 1952
This is a collection of everything
“In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.”
“The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.”
“I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit — profits extracted at the cost of life.”
“I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.”
“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.”
“The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.”
“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.”
“It's not an investment if it’s destroying the planet.”
“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.”
“In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.”
“The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.”
“I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit — profits extracted at the cost of life.”
“I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.”
“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.”
“The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.”
“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.”
“I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal system is manipulated to create seed monopolies. Seed laws that require uniformity - which criminalize diversity and the use of open-pollinated seeds - are fascist in nature. Suing farmers after contaminating their crops is another aspect of this fascism. Pseudo-hygiene laws that criminalize local, artisanal food are food fascism. And attacks on scientists and the silencing of independent research are examples of knowledge fascism.”
“The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.”
“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.”
“An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.”
“Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.”
“I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell”
“We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.”
“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
“Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.”
“I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.”
“Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.”
“Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.”
“Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.”
