Feminism and Global Warming

The Halftime Show was a classic arts representation of an intense, popular, minority paradigm: Commercialized revolution.
 
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More countries have produced a nuclear bomb than can mass-produce a jet engine.

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In his 2020 annual letter Larry Fink, the CEO of the largest asset manager in the world, mentioned the the words “sustainability” and “climate” nearly 50 times. In 2023 it was less than 10.

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Feminism and Global Warming

Good news! 'UN Women' is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. They have a research arm. Yes, their own research arm. UN Women researchers find that feminism holds the real key to preventing the planet from global warming. This was reported in Scientific American! Scientific American!

From “How Feminism Can Guide Climate Change Action:”

The current economic system that underpins that status quo is rooted in the extraction of natural resources and exploitation of cheap or unpaid labor, often done by women and marginalized communities. This system therefore drives the climate crisis while perpetuating inequalities based on gender, race and class. It prioritizes the interests of corporations, governments and elites in positions of power and wealth, while destroying the natural environment that poor and marginalized people depend on the most.

So the jihad over faith-based global warming is not just about ending fossil fuel–based economies but a more fundamental transformation of our economic and political systems.

This is truly a rare outbreak of honesty in the so-called warming revolution. This is about political and economic power, achievable only by unilateral surrender of existing Western structures.

The paper focuses upon women from Indigenous and local communities who have used their traditional knowledge of tree species to lead sustainable forestry initiatives in Colombia; and in Bangladesh, during extreme floods, women relied on traditional rural cooking methods to provide food in remote affected areas.

These new systems would prioritize the well-being of people and the planet, over profits and elite power, to enable a more sustainable, resilient, inclusive and equitable future. This feminist vision builds on thinking from a diversity of cultural contexts and growing interest in “well-being economies.” For example, the Buen Vivir (Living Well) paradigm that underpins the development strategies of Bolivia and Ecuador is inspired by Indigenous knowledge and values that promote harmonious relationships between humans and nature.

So we are to abandon our current lives based upon Western knowledge and achievements which have elevated our living standards immeasurably over the last two hundred years in favor of the qualities of impoverished, autocratic, suppressed cultures reminiscent of the circumstances the Western miracle has overcome.

Bolivian and Ecuadorian cultures, as charming as they might be, will not rise to manage the world of Western technology, economy, and philosophy. They can meet only if the West declines to those more suppressed, primitive cultures. 

Strangely, the most important question raised by this plan for this new world is never asked: How will that decline be managed?