Vandana Shiva Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.

  Vandana Shiva

  Humanity, Next Steps, Needs

• 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 Shiva

  Earth Day, Way, Making Peace

• If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.

  Vandana Shiva

  Giving, Earth, Great Company

• We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.

  Vandana Shiva

  Rights, People, Three

• Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth’s resources and living processes.

  Vandana Shiva

  People, Earth, Green

• The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

  Vandana Shiva

  Abuse, Earth, Ecological Crisis

• Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.

  Vandana Shiva

  Two, Water, Earth

  Vandana Shiva (2002). “Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit”, p.1, Pluto Press

• The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.

  Vandana Shiva

  Earth, Way

• Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.

  Vandana Shiva

  Compassion, Circles, People

  Vandana Shiva (2005). “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, p.11, Zed Books

• The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring yield of commodities, to health and well-being of ecosystems and communities. Industrial agriculture has its roots in war. Ecological agriculture allows us to make peace with the earth, soil and the society.

  Vandana Shiva

  War, Moving, Yield

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin