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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 future at all.
Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis (2008)
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis (2008)
The gradual spread of sterility in seeding plants would result in a global catastrophe that could eventually wipe out higher life forms, including humans, from the planet.
What could be a better indication of man’s continued dependence on nature than the fact that today’s so-called post-industrial societies satisfy most of their food needs through imports from so-called underdeveloped countries?
Economic reforms based on the idea of limitless growth in a limited world, can only be maintained by the powerful grabbing the resources of the vulnerable. The resource grab that is essential for “growth” creates a culture of rape—the rape of the earth, of local self-reliant economies, and of women.
Simplicity and nonviolence are the basis of an economy of wellbeing, and such an economy must be localised.
Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom (2020)
When Bill Gates pours money into Africa for feeding the poor in Africa and preventing famine, he’s pushing the failed Green Revolution, he’s pushing chemicals, pushing GMOs, pushing patterns.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence. (p116)
Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace (2005)
Bill Gates has hijacked the WHO and transformed it into an instrument of personal power that he wields for the cynical purpose of increasing pharmaceutical profits. He has single-handedly destroyed the infrastructure of public health globally. He has privatized our health systems and our food systems to serve his own purposes.
The way out of this violent cycle is to deepen democracy—to bring decisions that directly affect people’s lives as close as possible to where people are and to where they can take responsibility.
with Yes Magazine (2003)
Properties perceived in nature will depend on how one looks and how one looks depends on the economic interest one has in the resources of nature. The value of profit maximization is thus linked to reductionist systems, while the value of life and the maintenance of life is linked to holistic and ecological systems.