Editing Vandana Shiva (section)

==Science as legacy of exploitation==
Shiva has repeatedly gone on record characterizing science as "a very narrow, patriarchal project" that has been around only "for a short period of history" and argued that "we name 'science' what is mechanistic and reductionist." She condemns the "kind of science" that "[[Francis Bacon|Bacon]], [[Descartes]], and others, who are called 'fathers of modern science', have created," because scientists, as she claims, "declare nature as dead" and then use a "mechanistic mode" to analyze it. Shiva assigns the so-called scientific progress of the last centuries to the advance of [[capitalism]], a time when the new exploitation needed a knowledge that would justify it.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/reel/1034870791761123 |title=Vandana Shiva|website=YouTube |access-date=25 October 2024}}</ref> In her 8 March 2017 speech to the [[European Parliament]], Shiva stated that the "rise of masculinist science with Descartes, Newton, Bacon, led to the domination of [a] reductionist mechanistic science and a subjugation of [the] knowledge systems [that are] based on interconnections and relationships," a knowledge, she argued, that "includes all [[Indigenous peoples|indigenous]] knowledge systems, and women’s knowledge."<ref name=eup>{{cite web |url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/212309/Programme-interparliamentary-conference_8-9-March-2017.pdf |title=Women's Economic Empowerment: Let's Act Together|publisher=[[European Parliament]] |date=8 March 2017 |website=Europa.EU |access-date=25 October 2024}}</ref><ref name=dead>{{cite web |url=https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/video/womens-day-2017-statement-by-dr-vandana-shiva-author-activist-pioneer-scientific-advisor-mother_I135030|title=Statement by Dr Vandana Shiva, author, activist, pioneer, scientific advisor, mother |publisher=[[European Parliament]] |date=8 March 2017 |website=Europa.EU |access-date=25 October 2024}}</ref>