We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
Vandana ShivaIn traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
Vandana ShivaI like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell
Vandana ShivaWhen you take the entire system into account, ways of developing more of something in one dimension can actually create scarcities in another. If we say we have to increase production because people need more food, more housing, more meat, or more milk, we can make one thing grow in a certain way. But by doing that we create externalities so that there are scarcities in other related things.
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