Vandana Shiva

The Vandana Shiva Reader

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  • Lili Joaquínhas quoted4 years ago
    This is equivalent to twelve 9/11s. I was forced to sit up and ask why agriculture had become like war.
  • Lili Joaquínhas quoted4 years ago
    It was becoming increasingly evident that scientific expertise worked more in the service of capital and forces abetting the destruction of nature.
  • Lili Joaquínhas quoted4 years ago
    I realized that humanity had cultivated a “monoculture of the mind,” which created a blindness to diversity and its potentials, a blindness that blocked out the high productivity of biodiverse systems in forests, in agriculture, in the oce
  • Lili Joaquínhas quoted4 years ago
    it was the Chipko Movement that awakened my ecological consciousness and made me deeply aware of the relationship between ecological destruction and the creation of poverty.
  • Lili Joaquínhas quoted4 years ago
    By 1981 the government was forced to recognize the wisdom of Chipko—that the primary products of the forest are soil, water, and pure air, not timber, resin, and revenues.
  • Lili Joaquínhas quoted4 years ago
    I realized then that most science is partial. I wanted to practice a holistic science and was drawn to quantum theory for its nonreductionist, nonmechanist paradigm.
  • Lili Joaquínhas quoted4 years ago
    partial. I wanted to practice a holistic science and was drawn to quantum theory for its nonreductionist, nonmechanist paradigm.
  • Lili Joaquínhas quoted4 years ago
    Mental monoculture is the typical product of the modern university.
  • Lili Joaquínhas quoted4 years ago
    Like too few, she knows how monocultures on the land proceed from monoculture in the mind.
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