Indian environmental activist and anti-globalization author, born 5 November 1952 in Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh (today Uttarakhand), India.
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.
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
The myth of "free choice" begins with "free market" and "free trade". When five transnational corporations control the seed market, it is not a free market, it is a cartel.
The fight for truth. . . is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth.
Gandhi is the other person. 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.
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.
We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe. .
