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Vandana Shiva

Indian environmental activist

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A physicist turned campaigner for seed sovereignty and organic farming who opposes genetically modified crops and corporate control of agriculture.

Vandana Shiva sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly nature-first on environment, strongly tech-cautious on technology and strongly state-led on economy.

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Where Vandana Shiva sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureSlightly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationSlightly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentStrongly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-cautious
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionSlightly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Vandana Shiva

E. F. Schumacher German-British economist, 1911 to 197799%Rigoberta Menchú Guatemalan Indigenous rights activist98%Chico Mendes Brazilian rubber tapper and environmentalist, 1944 to 198897%Jean-Jacques Rousseau Genevan philosopher, 1712 to 177897%Rachel Carson American marine biologist and author, 1907 to 196497%Ivan Illich Austrian philosopher and priest, 1926 to 200296%Jacques Ellul French sociologist and Christian anarchist, 1912 to 199495%Wangari Maathai Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel laureate, 1940 to 201194%

People furthest from Vandana Shiva

Joseph Stalin Soviet leader, 1920s to 19536%Ayn Rand Russian-American novelist and philosopher, 1905 to 19827%Louis XIV King of France, 1643 to 17158%Emperor Meiji Emperor of Japan, 1867 to 19128%

Political views closest to Vandana Shiva

DegrowthArgues that rich economies should shrink resource use and consumption to stay within…98%Neo-LuddismResists industrial and digital technology that is seen to erode community, work and…98%Deep ecologyGives nature value in itself and calls for a radical reduction of human impact.96%AgrarianismValues rural life, small farms and self-reliant communities over industrial and urban…95%

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