The Vandana Shiva Reader

This is equivalent to twelve 9/11s. I was forced to sit up and ask why agriculture had become like war.

It was becoming increasingly evident that scientific expertise worked more in the service of capital and forces abetting the destruction of nature.

I realized that humanity had cultivated a “monoculture of the mind,” which created a blindness to diversity and its potentials, a blindness that blocked out the high productivity of biodiverse systems in forests, in agriculture, in the oce

it was the Chipko Movement that awakened my ecological consciousness and made me deeply aware of the relationship between ecological destruction and the creation of poverty.

By 1981 the government was forced to recognize the wisdom of Chipko—that the primary products of the forest are soil, water, and pure air, not timber, resin, and revenues.

I realized then that most science is partial. I wanted to practice a holistic science and was drawn to quantum theory for its nonreductionist, nonmechanist paradigm.

partial. I wanted to practice a holistic science and was drawn to quantum theory for its nonreductionist, nonmechanist paradigm.

Mental monoculture is the typical product of the modern university.

Like too few, she knows how monocultures on the land proceed from monoculture in the mind.