Frasi di Vandana Shiva (41 frasi) | Citazioni e frasi celebri

Origine: Dall'intervista di Federico Rampini, Vandana Shiva: "Io, spina nel fianco dell'industria Ogm. Vogliono screditarmi ma continuo a lottare" http://www.repubblica.it/ambiente/2014/10/03/news/intervista_vandana_shiva_ogm-97215746/?ref=HREC1-17, la Repubblica, 3 ottobre 2014.

Vandana Shiva Frasi e Citazioni

“Le donne sono guardiane del futuro.”

Vandana Shiva

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

“Dobbiamo riprenderci il diritto di conservare i semi e la biodiversità. Il diritto al nutrimento e al cibo sano. Il diritto di proteggere la terra e le sue diverse specie. Dobbiamo fermare il furto delle multinazionali a danno dei poveri e della natura. La democrazia alimentare è al centro dell'agenda per la democrazia e i diritti umani, al centro del programma per la sostenibilità ecologica e la giustizia sociale.”

Vandana Shiva

Origine: Vacche sacre e mucche pazze, p. 30

“La deregolamentazione ambientale è parte essenziale della liberalizzazione commerciale, e pertanto libero commercio e difesa dell'ambiente sono incompatibili. Per salvare le tartarughe, bisogna respingere insieme il libero scambio e le tecnologie distruttive dell'ambiente.”

Vandana Shiva

Origine: Vacche sacre e mucche pazze, p. 51

“Diversità ed alta produttività vanno per mano quando si prendono in considerazione tutti i raccolti e tutti i costi degli input esterni da sommare a quello degli altri input. Il paradigma della monocoltura ha come riferimento le rese delle merci prese una alla volta, e riesce ad esternalizzare i costi degli input chimici e dell'energia. Le agricolture industriali inefficienti e dispendiose vengono così presentate come efficienti e produttive.”

Vandana Shiva

Origine: Vacche sacre e mucche pazze, p. 120

“I moderni concetti di riproduzione delle piante come quello HYV riducono interi sistemi di produzione a raccolti singoli, o parti di raccolto. Le componenti di un sistema di raccolti sono allora commisurate con le componenti di un altro sistema. Dato che la strategia della Rivoluzione verde punta ad aumentare la produzione di una sola componente agricola, a costo di ridurre tutte le altre, facendo nel contempo aumentare gli inputs esterni, il confronto tra rese è per definizione falsato e fa apparire «ad alta resa» le nuove varietà, nonostante che esse non necessariamente lo siano se considerate a livello dell'intero sistema di produzione.”

Vandana Shiva

da Monocolture della mente, par. 5, p. 43
Monocolture della mente

“L'argomento che i contadini si suicidano per i debiti, e non per gli Ogm, è specioso. Gli agenti della Monsanto che vendono semenze Ogm, fertilizzanti e pesticidi, sono gli stessi che fanno il credito. Il contadino prima si indebita per le semenze di cotone, poi scopre di dover comprare più fertilizzanti e pesticidi e s'indebita ancora. Il bacillo del cotone Bt perde efficacia, le dosi di pesticidi aumentano, i debiti pure. È questo ciclo di alti costi, escalation nei prodotti chimici, la trappola del debito che spinge al suicidio.”

Vandana Shiva

“Non ho mai considerato l'automobile come un mezzo di trasporto superiore: il cammello ci permette di muoverci nel deserto e la renna ci fa attraversare i nevai.”

Vandana Shiva

Origine: Ritorno alla terra, p. 117

“Esistono molte alternative ai fertilizzanti chimici: […] i lombrichi; il letame bovino e il compost. I rifiuti agricoli favoriscono l'incremento graduale dei lombrichi fornendo loro una risorsa alimentare. […] Il piccolo lombrico che lavora invisibilmente nel terreno è contemporaneamente il trattore, la fabbrica di fertilizzante e la diga. I terreni abitati dai lombrichi sono più resistenti all'acqua e contengono anche una quantità notevolmente superiore di carbonio e azoto organico. L'incessante movimento dei lombrichi crea canali che contribuiscono all'aerazione del suolo […].”

Vandana Shiva

Origine: Ritorno alla terra, pp. 182-183

“La domanda di cibi locali per ridurre i food-miles e per creare una catena alimentare più domestica ha creato una nuova dicotomia tra "biologico" e "locale". La mia opinione è che si tratti di una falsa dicotomia. Biologico significa integro e salutare, per la salute della terra e del nostro corpo. Il cibo che potrebbe essere coltivato nell'orto vicino a casa, ma che invece è importato da paesi lontani migliaia di miglia non è biologico secondo i parametri dell'ecologia.”

Vandana Shiva

Origine: Ritorno alla terra, p. 199

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

Vandana Shiva

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.”

Vandana Shiva

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.”

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Origine: Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace

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

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

“If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.”

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“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”

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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 human future at all.”

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Origine: Quoted in Woman power to the fore, by R.S. Binuraj, The Hindu (1 July 2017)

“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.”

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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.”

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As quoted in " In the Footsteps of Gandhi: An Interview with Vandana Shiva http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/shiva.html" by Scott London <br class="br">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.

“Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.”

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Origine: Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace

“As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.”

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

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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.”

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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

“I've had letters from Chinese scientists at the peak of the SARS epidemic who said the problem is a hybridization between the viruses planted into GMO feed, which is then fed to animals, then the virus jumped from the animals to humans. We're going to see more and more of these kinds of risks. I think the whole issue of the H1N1 virus was the fact that it had genes for three influenza types--human, chicken, pig. All of these crossings are becoming possible because of the crossing of genes across species barriers.”

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On the SARS epidemic, as quoted in " A Visit to My Kitchen: Vandana Shiva http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/a-visit-to-my-kitchen-van_b_775298.html?ir=India&adsSiteOverride=in", The Huffington Post (28 October 2011)

“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.”

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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.”

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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)

“Nuclear power started in weaponry. It was designed for war. And any instrument that has its origins in war always has the potential for war. First because the material you need to make bombs, you’re multiplying it though nuclear power, you’re taking uranium and turn it into plutonium. Second by equipping governments and private companies with this potential, in society you spread this potential, that here is a weapon of mass destruction available. This is exactly what happened with fertilizers. Chemical fertilizers came from explosive factories are increasingly used in terrorist attacks.”

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On nuclear power, as quoted in " Koodankulam Must Be Stopped: Vandana Shiva http://www.dianuke.org/koodankulam-must-be-stopped-vandana-shiva/", DiaNuke (29 May 2012)

“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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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

“Shiva’s words are treated with earnest respect in liberal and environmental circles, where she is held in great esteem. If she insists that Monsanto and its GMO seeds have driven hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers to suicide—and she has said this frequently—then there must be something to it.”

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Keith Kloor, science journalist, as quoted in " The GMO-Suicide Myth http://issues.org/30-2/keith/", Issues in Science and Technology (Winter 2014)

“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.”

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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)