9 Quotes & Sayings By Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva is an Indian activist, writer and environmental scientist. She is the founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE), which engages in studies on the globalization of agriculture and food systems, genetic engineering, sustainable development and common pool resources. She is also the founder of Navdanya, an organization dedicated to safeguarding seeds and indigenous knowledge. The organization works to create food security for India by restoring the country's biodiversity.

We are either going to have a future where women...
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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. Vandana Shiva
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As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries. Vandana Shiva
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The myth of "free choice" begins with "free market" and "free trade". When five transnational corporations control the seed market, it is not a free market, it is a cartel. Vandana Shiva
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The fight for truth...is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth. Vandana Shiva
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Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy – not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based. . Vandana Shiva
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Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates. Vandana Shiva
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Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it. Vandana Shiva
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We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe. Vandana Shiva