We're living in the anthropocene age and now human beings will be the shapers of our future, that totally control the overall functions of not just our planet, but our relationship with other planets.

It is not an investment if it destroys the planet

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think it’s time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.

The spinning wheel became the symbol of Indian independence. So we always say, "if the spinning wheel was the symbol of our first independence, then the seed is the symbol of our second independence."

I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.

Governments have a favorite phrase: “lean and mean.” But they’ve been made very, very fat for corporate interests.