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Simplicity and nonviolence are the basis of an economy of wellbeing, and such an economy must be localised.

— Vandana Shiva Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom (2020)

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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.

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