What could be a better indication of man’s continued dependence on nature than the fact that today’s so-called post-industrial societies satisfy most… - Vandana Shiva

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence. (p116)

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

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.