Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

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.

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.

I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system - I was being trained to be the first women in the fast-breeder reactor in India (and was in it when it first went critical) - I didn't feel comfortable with it. So I went into theoretical physics.

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.