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 wasnยt there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.
Vandana ShivaThe 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.
Vandana ShivaAmerican firms are beginning to reproduce nonsustainable systems, to force the elite of India to become energy consumers of the kind that the U.S. has become. Thatยs what globalization is about: Find markets where you can.
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