As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
It’s not an investment if it’s destroying the planet.
We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.
If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she’s giving you great company.
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.
Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive, most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
Food is the place where you begin.
Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
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.
Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature’s gift and denies the poor of their human rights.
I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell.
When you control seed you control food.
Everything I need to know I learned in the forest.
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.