Vandana Shiva Quotes About Diversity

Quotes about: Diversity

• I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal system is manipulated to create seed monopolies. Seed laws that require uniformity - which criminalize diversity and the use of open-pollinated seeds - are fascist in nature. Suing farmers after contaminating their crops, [...] is another aspect of this fascism. Pseudo-hygiene laws that criminalize local, artisanal food are food fascism. And attacks on scientists and the silencing of independent research [...] are examples of knowledge fascism.

  Vandana Shiva

  Independent, Law, Hygiene

  "Farming Free: An Interview With Food Sovereignty Activist Vandana Shiva". Interview with Thaddeus Christian, www.motherearthnews.com. June/July 2014.

• Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

  Vandana Shiva

  Nature, Diversity, Brotherhood

• 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.

  Vandana Shiva

  Luxury, Justice, Diversity

• Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

  Vandana Shiva

  Agriculture, Diversity, Balance

  Vandana Shiva (2011). “India Divided: Diversity and Democracy Under Attack”, p.68, Seven Stories Press

• Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

  Vandana Shiva

  Luxury, Diversity, Survival

  Vandana Shiva (2005). “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, p.94, Zed Books

• 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.

  Vandana Shiva

  Diversity, Corporations, Wealth

  Source: scottlondon.com

• For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.

  Vandana Shiva

  Ideas, Rights, Diversity

  Source: scottlondon.com

• It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mistake, Healing, Diversity

• We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

  Vandana Shiva

  Diversity, Resistance, Celebration

• Seen 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 Shiva

  Clever, Diversity, Perspective

  Source: scottlondon.com

• There 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.

  Vandana Shiva

  Country, Drinking, Agriculture

  Source: scottlondon.com

• The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people and to meet more needs. But it actually destroys more of the resources that we need in order to meet those multiple needs. If we shift to an ecological perception, a diversity perception, we realize that some of the instruments of which we are very proud are actually extremely primitive for dealing with nature. To me that is the great lesson of ecological awareness at the turn of the millennium.

  Vandana Shiva

  Order, Creating, Diversity

  Source: scottlondon.com

• One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common rights are needed to protect the common intellectual heritage of indigenous peoples. These are rights that are recognized through the Convention on Biological Diversity. We are working to make sure that they become foundations of our jurisprudence.

  Vandana Shiva

  Rights, Diversity, Intellectual

  Source: scottlondon.com

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