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Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, and alter-globalization author. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than twenty books.

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The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest scientific manpower in the world then) and yet at the same time struggling with amazing poverty. The linear equation that says that modern science equals progress and the reduction of poverty did not apply to India. It wasn't working.

Compelled, Equation, Highly, Issues, Progress, Struggle

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

Biological, Biopiracy, Corporations, Indigenous, Patents, Use

Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

Future, Holds, Humanity, Oil, Soil

The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.

Activists, Father, Forestry, Movement, Parent, Parents

Its not that Monsanto is making money out of the blue. Its making money by coercing and literally forcing people to pay for what was free. Take water, for instance. Water has always been free. Weve never paid for drinking water. The World Bank says the reason water has been misused is because it was never commercially priced. But the reason its been misused is because it was wasted by the big usersindustry, which polluted it.

Blue, Drinking, Literally, Misused, People

I absolutely get thrills from taking on these big guys and recognizing how, behind all their power, they are so empty. I just keep going at it. Each of these balloons does deflate. Ive seen a lot of balloons get deflated in my life.

Balloons, Big, Doe, Guy, Recognizing, Thrills

When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.

Destroyed, Environmental, Justice, People, River, Rivers

Gandhis idea of swadeshithat local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic element of freedomis becoming increasingly relevant. We cannot afford to forget that we need self-rule, especially in this world of globalization.

Element, Idea, Ideas, Increasingly, Needs, Self

We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.

Eating, Leftovers, War, World

Food is the place where you begin.

Begin, Food, Place

The role of geo-engineering should, in a world of responsibility, in a world of scientifically enlightened decision making and ecological understanding, it should be zero. There is no role for geo-engeneering. Because what is geoengineering but extending the engineering paradigm?

Engineering, Geoengineering, Making, Responsibility, Zero

I have a deep connection with Mahatma Gandhi, partly because my mother was a very, very staunch Gandhian and brought us up that way. When I was six years old, and all the girls were getting nylon dresses, I was very keen to get a nylon frock for my birthday. My mother said, I can get it for you, but would you ratherthrough how you live and what you wear and what you eatensure that food goes into the hands of the weaver or ensure that profits go into the bank of an industrialist? That became such a checkstone for everything in life.

Eatensure, Food, Girl, Hands, Mother, Way

It is often too late by the time the government reacts.

Government, Late, Reacts, Time, Too Late

My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the war years, in the 1940s. She was studying in Lahore, which became Pakistan. She was writing about how women alone could bring peace to the world, that the men with all their greed and egos were creating all these tensions and violence. I always knew she was a feminist, ahead of her time.

Book, Lahore, Men, Mother, Tremendous, War

The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.

Creativity, Embodiment, Mother, Product, Taught Us

I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the way to learn nature. So my travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology.

Students, Taught, Travels, Urges, Way, Young

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

Account, Damage, Ecological, Systems, Way

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

Consumption, Needs, Patterns, Production, Take, Violence

Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows and the cyclists. So for the first time the sacred cow in India, which used to be such a wonderful speed-breaker, is now seen as a nuisance. For the first time, Ive seen cows being hit and hurt. These guys just go right past, and if the cow is sitting on the road, they dont care. We cant afford to have a sacred car rather than a sacred cow.

Car, Hurt, Past, Road, Time

Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India.

Amory, Energy, India, Look, Looks, Reproduced

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