I think it’s possible to put our mind away from the fossil fuel area, which started with the steam engine, which made coal and oil the centre of civilization's definition. I think it is possible to define productivity not in terms of how many energy slaves have produced a piece of equipment, but how many free humans have been involved in it or how much free energy of plants and animals have been involved in it. It’s merely a definitional shift. It shouldn’t take too long for a species with a mind.
11.06.2007,
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Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecofeminist, environmental activist and author. Shiva, currently based in New Delhi, is author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals.
Dr. Shiva participated in the Chipko movement during the 1970s. The movement, whose main participants were women, adopted the tactic of hugging trees to prevent their felling. In 1982, she founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. Initiatives of this foundation include Navdanya, an organic farming programme, the Bija Vidyapeeth' (or Seed University, International College for Sustainable Living), and Diverse Women for Diversity. Another of her initiatives is the Living Democracy Movement.
Shiva is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization, (along with Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, Jeremy Rifkin, etc.), and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as anti-globalization movement.
