Frasi di Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva è un'attivista e ambientalista indiana.

Attivista politica e ambientalista, si è battuta per cambiare pratiche e paradigmi nell'agricoltura e nell'alimentazione; si è occupata anche di questioni legate ai diritti sulla proprietà intellettuale, alla biodiversità, alla bioetica, alle implicazioni sociali, economiche e geopolitiche connesse all'uso di biotecnologie, ingegneria genetica e altro.

È tra i principali leader dell'International Forum on Globalization, ed è vegetariana.Nel 1993 ha ricevuto il Right Livelihood Award, detto il Premio Nobel alternativo. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. Novembre 1952
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Vandana Shiva frasi celebri

“L'India ha bisogno di recuperare valori morali prima di fare sogni da superpotenza.”

Origine: Da India spezzata, quarta di copertina.

Frasi sulla vita di Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva Frasi e Citazioni

“Le donne sono guardiane del futuro.”

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro del femminismo, traduzione di Martina Dominici, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 200. ISBN 9788858022900

“I brevetti sulle sementi mettono in pericolo la sopravvivenza stessa e la libertà dei contadini… e degli allevatori.”

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro dell'ecologia, traduzione di Roberto Sorgo, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 327. ISBN 9788858024362

“Consideriamo la distruzione della Terra… per mano di imprese guerriere come questioni femministe.”

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro del femminismo, traduzione di Martina Dominici, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 201. ISBN 9788858022900

Vandana Shiva: Frasi in inglese

“In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.”

Origine: Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace

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

Origine: Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis

“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.”

On Bill Gate's philanthropic activities, from " Bill Gates is continuing the work of Monsanto, Vandana Shiva tells France24 https://www.france24.com/en/20191023-bill-gates-is-continuing-the-work-of-monsanto-vandana-shiva-tells-france-24-1" France24 (23 October 2019)

“I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you.”

As quoted in " In the Footsteps of Gandhi: An Interview with Vandana Shiva http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/shiva.html" by Scott London
Contesto: I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.

“Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.”

On biopiracy, from the booklet " No Patents on Seeds: A Handbook For Activists https://books.google.co.in/books/about/No_Patents_on_Seeds_a_Handbook_for_Activ.html?id=F0mftgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y" (2005)

“Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.”

From the book " Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace https://books.google.co.in/books?id=iQzwwzBYGDkC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=Earth+Democracy+connects+people+in+circles+of+care,+cooperation,+and+compassion+instead+of+dividing+them+through+competition+and+conflict,+fear+and+hatred.&source=bl&ots=ripjK7ckDs&sig=W1_86jEtUK7OfIyvDWhLeSxbIgk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIzOTt6eTDyAIVSCOOCh0SCg2u#v=onepage&q&f=false" (2005), p. 11

“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.”

On economic reforms in India and rape in India, from " Vandana Shiva: Our Violent Economy is Hurting Women http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/violent-economic-reforms-and-women" Yes Magazine (18 January 2013)

“If you look at the graph of the growth of G. M. O. s, the growth of application of glyphosate and autism, it’s literally a one-to-one correspondence. And you could make that graph for kidney failure, you could make that graph for diabetes, you could make that graph even for Alzheimer’s.”

On the correlation of autism, kidney failure, diabetes and Alzheimer's with GMOs and glyphosate, as quoted in " Seeds of Doubt http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/seeds-of-doubt" by Michael Specter, The New Yorker (25 August 2014)

“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.”

On the terminator gene, from the book " Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply https://books.google.co.in/books?id=yVn_OlBeDqoC&lpg=PA83&ots=mMupgiFh0t&dq=the%20terminator%20may%20spread%20to%20surrounding%20food%20crops%20or%20the%20natural%20environment%20is%20a%20serious%20one.%20The%20gradual%20spread%20of%20sterility%20in%20seeding%20plants%20would%20result%20in%20a%20global%20catastrophe%20that%20could%20eventually%20wipe%20out%20higher%20life%20forms%2C%20including%20humans%2C%20from%20the%20planet%E2%80%9D.&pg=PA83#v=onepage&q&f=false" (2001), p.83

“When you call somebody a fraud, that suggests the person knows she is lying. I don’t think Vandana Shiva necessarily knows that. But she is blinded by her ideology and her political beliefs. That is why she is so effective and so dangerous.”

Mark Lynas, journalist and environmental activist, as quoted in " Seeds of Doubt http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/seeds-of-doubt" by Michael Specter, The New Yorker (25 August 2014)

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