The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.

I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.

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.

When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.