Headlines: !Patriarchal Capitalism to Divorce Mother Nature!
Hell Hath no fury like a women scorned, cause in this case, we all lose!
Throughout third world communities, women, peasants, and tribals are struggling for liberation from economic developmental terrorism. With money equating to power this day and age, men are straying from natures ties with tunnel vision set on profits. Women’s impoverishment started increasing during colonial rule, subjugating and crippling women for generations into de-skilled, uneducated appendages of men. Since then development has been absent of feminine principles, conservation methods, and ecological principles as a whole The social violences enacted on women are further amplified with constant blame for failing domestic economies. Men take no responsibility in hurting our social relationships, essentially hindering everyone. Our ecosystem is withering away with little aid from the business sector of our existence, essentially limiting humanities potential to economic figures. A figment value we believe exists through popular opinion is taking precedence over the resources need to even produce it. Throughout the process of westernization, needs, growth, and worker productivity have become economic categories of a commercialized economy, producing to much surplus in an effort to raise profits. Redefinition of the terms sustainability & development require society and the overall power structure of America, to take an ecological and feminine stance towards progression.
The shift towards economic surplus made technology and material advancements a uniform measure of high class, developed cultures, and gender dominance. Natural resources are being destroyed faster than they can be replenished, slowly increasing product scarcity and forcing marginalized groups to take the brunt of devastation. Sometimes over-pillaging isn’t the issue so much as a disruption to natural processes. The meddling of production systems in finite earth processes is enough to start a chain reaction of ecological devastation. Habitat Fragmentation disrupts the existing symbiotic growth processes, eroding survival resources and limiting potential for progression.
This cycle is where conversations of power dynamics arise because limiting resources of progression forces the marginalized into a state of subservience.
Diversity and unity become unattainable in the context of maldevelopment, simultaneously alluding to women’s underdevelopment issues and ecological crisis. Sexist domination and the depletion of natural resources are direct ramifications of economic development, further increasing product scarcity and poverty levels. Everything mother nature can sustainably provide, from water to food and mineral resources, has been over-pillaged to the point of erosion. Similarly, female nature to nurture and sustain growth within communities is being affected by resourced price figures, making communities less stable and women lesser humans to be gawked at and reproduce at whim. The product market has maneuvered past several environmental legislations since the dawn of the industrial era, but most of these acts have barely imposed limits on harmful overproduction means. The rise of gender and ecology principles in the economic colonization of resources sheds light on the dual coin that is capitalism, forcing nature terrorists to take responsibility on issues regarding humanity and natural processes. Maldevelopment methods have violated the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems, setting in motion a process of exploitation and injustice.
When referencing development, two definitions of growth intersect depending on how you view the improvement. What patriarchal economists label as productive work is, in ecological terms, highly destructive means of production. Modern and productive technologies created for growth in market economic terms bear heavy ecological costs on underrepresented groups. Economic growth typically measured as increases in gross national product ignores ecological devastation as hidden expenses while only measuring the overall goods and services circulating in the money economy. GOP can no longer be a uniform measure of economic growth because it doesn’t take into account the proportions and distribution of welfare resources and wealth. The purpose of redefining development isn’t to just add a women perspective, but to require a much needed shift in perspective on the cultural and economic exploitation in capitalist growth. Gender subordination and patriarchy are two of the older oppressions that influence our way of life, but not until overproductions means did economic development become devoid of nature principles. Increasing economic biases towards nature further separates nature & feminine sustenance work as unproductive means, altering the definition of productivity to work producing profit or capital. Destruction of ecologically-sound, traditional technologies created and used by women, in addition to the destruction of material bases, has overtime shunned feminine influences out of development. Technological savviness in the modern westernized-male context has become the direct unit of comparison between classes, cultures and genders, further ostracizing marginalized groups through male oriented means of power and profit.
Rupturing the co-operative unity necessary to live in harmony, man has placed himself and his means of power over the needs of women and nature.
Recovery of this feminine principle will push us towards transcendence with nature and transform our patriarchal foundations, redefining growth and productivity as focuses of production.
