Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.
Vandana ShivaThe poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think itยs 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.
Vandana ShivaYou are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
Vandana ShivaThere are scarcities in drinking water when you pollute the groundwater with nitrates. There is a scarcity in diversity when you create huge cornfields with the same strain of corn so that when one disease strikes - which happened in the United States in the 70s - all the cornfields in the country are wiped out. That was the first time the U.S. realized the value of diversity in agriculture and began to discuss genetic resources and their conservation.
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