In a moment that could have been an act of polite rebellion, physicist and ecologist Vandana Shiva walked off stage during a speech about the need to 'put a price on nature' in the European Parliament this week.
"I have dedicated 50 years of my life to the protection of biodiversity, and it has always been a struggle against commodification," she said after returning to the panel. "When the British came to India, they turned all the land of India into a commodity."
The discussio...
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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.