Green Feminist Vandana Shiva Always Has Good Points.
January 14, 2010
I know I am terribly behind the times with this, but here is a great interview from Ms. magazine with ecofeminist and personal hero, Vandana Shiva, regarding the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagan. It is no secret that climate change disproportionately affects women in poverty-stricken countries. This is something that needs to be addressed more often, because what affects women in these areas, the primary caregivers, will trickle down and drench everything and everyone else.
To me, this is the real crux of the issue. Green Feminism is an essential building block to the fine architecture of a just and functional society. GF is constructive and efficacious to all living things. Without it, there is a gaping societal hole that is left to just be plugged up with shit. Actually, there are many gaping holes that are everywhere in our damaged society, and they need to be cleaned out and sealed up, stat. Green Feminism isn’t just important for women to prosper. It’s for boys and men and transgendered folk as well as plants and animals and oceans and soil and rivers, too. Not to get too delphic on you, but let me just say what I feel the real core of this blog dwindles down to: without GF, it is all hurt, we are all hurt, because everything is everything. (Can you dig it? …sorry, I had to.).