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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.

— Vandana Shiva

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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.

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Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

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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.

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