Actually, I consider myself to be pretty politically conservative. Winona LaDuke More Quotes by Winona LaDuke More Quotes From Winona LaDuke It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food. Winona LaDuke addictionenergyjobs Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region. Winona LaDuke birth-defectscancercountry I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies. Winona LaDuke takenmotheranimal To native peoples, there is no such thing as the first, second, and third worlds; there is only an exploiting world ... whether its technological system is capitalist or communist ... and a host world. Native peoples, who occupy more land, make up the host world. Winona LaDuke landworldfirsts You've got to get people to believe that change is possible... You have to show that you can fight things successfully even if you don't win. Winona LaDuke fightingchangebelieve Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but also by environmentalists. Winona LaDuke toiletscuttingpaper The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of consumption requires constant intervention into other people's lands. That's what's going on. Winona LaDuke landessencepeople In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered. Winona LaDuke ecosystemsmayworld The aboriginal peoples of Australia illustrate the conflict between technology and the natural world succinctly, by asking, 'What will you do when the clever men destroy your water?' That, in truth, is what the world is coming to. Winona LaDuke technologyclevermen I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag. Winona LaDuke patrioticlandpeople I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land. Winona LaDuke flagspatriotland What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today. Winona LaDuke our-actionsgenerationstoday It's time to respect the treaties our ancestors signed and care for our land, water, and cultures so that they remain healthy for our future generations. Winona LaDuke healthylandwater The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you are. So the suggestion I will make to you is that the idea of constant accumulation, which is what America is about, what consumerism, NAFTA are about, means that you always take more than you need and you don't leave the rest. So I suggest that it is possible from an indigenous world view that capitalism is inherently out of order with natural law. Winona LaDuke lawordermean We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws. Winona LaDuke aquiferslandlakes The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to figure out how to leave things alone, and build an economic system that's not built on a linear model, but instead on a cyclical model, because that's the natural world - it's cyclical and not linear. That is going to take a lot of transformation. Winona LaDuke environmentaltransformationworld Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together. Winona LaDuke hard-workmotherfeet The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit those regions. The fish of the Great Lakes are laced with mercury from industrial plants, and fluoride from aluminum plants poisons the land and the people. Sewage from the population centers is mixed with PCBs and PBS in the watershed of the great lakes and the Finger Lakes, and the water is virtually nowhere safe for any living creatures. Winona LaDuke landlakesanimal Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society. Winona LaDuke pollutionenvironmentalcommunity The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as, for example, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, where 5,000 sheep died in some kind of experimental military nerve gas test 10 years ago. Many of our communities are dealing with that kind of waste, and an absence of political will to clean them up. Winona LaDuke skullsmilitarycountry
