"Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity."

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Source : Vandana Shiva (2016). “Soil, Not Oil: Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity”, p.15, Zed Books Ltd.

Vandana Shiva

#Oil Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Soil Quotes

“You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did.”
“I can always be reminded how small I am when I try to surf a wave that's a little bit out of my league, and I just get pummeled. And, when your life flashes before your eyes kind of stuff, deep down under the water where you don't know what's up or down, and that kind of thing, or just Mother Nature reminding you how small you are compared to it. That's kind of the main thing for me.”
“Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.”
“I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.”
“You can see the actions that the Russians are trying to take in eastern Ukraine. And so it's so important that we take actions to deter further Russian aggression against the Ukrainian people.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.”
“Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary characters. Among microorganisms the most striking example of inheritable and specific alterations in cell structure and function that can be experimentally induced and are reproducible under well defined and adequately controlled conditions is the transformation of specific types of Pneumococcus.”
“So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?”

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