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

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

The way out of this violent cycle is to deepen democracy—to bring decisions that directly affect people’s lives as close as possible to where people are and to where they can take responsibility.

The business of grabbing and money-making, through a violent extractive economy that the 1% have built, is burdening the earth and humanity with unbearable and non-sustainable costs, and has brought us to the brink of extinction. We do not have to escape from the earth; we have to escape from the illusions that enslave our minds and make extinction look inevitable.