What do the forest bear?
There is only one path, Prof. Dr Vandana Shiva suggests, to survival and liberation for nature, women and men, and that is the ecological path of harmony, sustainability and diversity.
In an issue of the MBA Newsletter 2 years ago we reviewed a book by Prof. Dr Vandana Shiva, who is a co-founder of World Future Council.
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Here is a short but timely quote from her 1988 book “Staying Alive. Women, Ecology and Development“.
It is a quote from a “Song of the Chipko women”, who in 1993 (and earlier) tied themselves to their native trees to prevent them being felled.
“What do the forest bear?
Soil water and pure air
Soil water and pure air
Sustain the earth and all she bears.”