Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.
Vandana ShivaWhenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
Vandana ShivaSeen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity, this is extremely crude because what we have lost out on is a cow that serves as a source of sustainable energy.
Vandana ShivaGiven that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.
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