More Than A Magazine, A Movement
Dr. Shiva, an internationally awarded physicist, has written a new book, “Oneness vs. The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom” that examines the “mechanical, military mindset” that routinely wars against a living planet and its people.
“What is eco-feminism?” she asks. “It’s taking off the blinkers of patriarchal capitalism that says nature is inert and dead, that women are dumb, and recognizing that nature and women are alive and creative.”
Stores are beginning to open up—but 82 percent of shoppers say they plan to keep shopping online. A multitude of powerful women are running specially curated thrift businesses through social media platforms—making fashion sustainable and safe.
The agricultural industry is contracting. The pandemic has slowed the rate of meat production, which in turn has allowed for rates of pollution, water waste and greenhouse gases to decline.
“This spring, while I social distance, I will plant seeds. After, when it is safe to go out, I will work to build a just world through community. Change comes through action. What will you do?”
We all depend on the clean air, clean water and oxygen provided by beautiful spaces such as the Amazon rainforest. Fighting for our environment and the collective needs of Earth’s dwellers in ways that best benefits them is putting intersectional feminist social justice in action.
Rhetoric that claims the pandemic is having a positive impact on the world, comes dangerously close to promoting ecofascist ideas. Ecofascism describes a society where individuals are sacrificed to benefit the environment. Deaths are ignored for the sake of the “greater good” of combating overpopulation and declining resources.
“We often feel alone,” Wendy Gao said, now a senior at Oakton High School in Oakton, Va. “It’s hard trying to make big changes as kids in a game that’s controlled by the establishment and the older generation.”
“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use, and water use. . . . It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car, as these only cut greenhouse gas emissions.”
Now that Mardi Gras’s party is over, our city is left scrambling to care for its residents who have some of the worst health indicators and toxic environments in the country to begin with. In response, though, as always, people are coming together to take care of each other.
The conversation around climate change was a minuscule part of overall corporate broadcast coverage in a year of extreme weather incidents and heightened activism worldwide.
