Vandana Shiva Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• American firms are beginning to reproduce nonsustainable systems, to force the elite of India to become energy consumers of the kind that the U.S. has become. That’s what globalization is about: Find markets where you can.

  Vandana Shiva

  Energy, India, Kind

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

• 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.

  Vandana Shiva

  Energy, India, Looks

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

• 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

• If you see cattle as a source of organic manure, animal energy, as well as milk products, then Indian cattle are not inferior. It is only when you measure them as milk machines that they become inferior. What if we measured the dairy cows of America or Jersey or the Swiss Alps in terms of their work functions? They would be terribly inferior.

  Vandana Shiva

  Animal, America, What If

  Source: scottlondon.com

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