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Key Notes: Vandana Shiva | Ecofeminism and the decolonization of women, nature and the future

Updated: May 6, 2020


The Self Organised Earth.

The earth maintains her climate, temperature and created the conditions for life to evolve. For our species to evolve. She created for the first life to evolve.

There are two options for humanity - extinction or escape. All ancient cultures recognise dearth.

Australian aboriginal people were farmers, and gardeners. Thus we can learn that: we belong to the land, it runs through my veins, the earth in my bones, the dry dusty planes, the whispering wind, as she blows through the sand.

The is no separation between the earth and us. It is a few centuries of capitalistic patriarchy that first began as colonially, moped into fossil fuel , coal was found. The process has allowed the illusion to grow that the earth has no power. Along with the earth, and nature. Women are defined as a passive inert nature. They are functioned as reproductive machine. Thus we have the colonisation of nature, women, the marginal, the indigenous and the future.

We must decolonise women, indigenous culture, working people. They are the common work of our time through diversity.

Ecological Apartheid

Creating an ecological apartheid - Boer word for separation. Indians had to register on race. Children of 8 years of had to carry race on their arm. We will not be divided by race. We will not accept the false construction that we are separated by nature. That privilege white men as master, owners conquers. And superior to those who have defined themselves with nature. But the passivity that is imposed on nature and women, and indigenous. This is done to establish an empire.

1600 Boyle- director of East Indian company, new England company.

Society of the probation of the gospel. Religion of the church and science was separate to westerners.

Bacon declare that there ought to be THE MACULINE BIRTH OF TIME - as though anything prior to his "enlightenment" was feminine and thus primitive. The objective of the royal society was to raise a masculine philosophy, whereby the mind of man may be ennobled with the knowledge of solid truths. As thought females have no truth or liquid truth.

The masculine aim of science is to conquest; captivating nature and thus not knowing nature, but making her a prisoner and making her sub serve our purposes, thereby achieving the empire of man over nature.

Boyle became the first director of the royal society. "The idea that the earth is living, and is held sacred by the indigenous people of American, 90% of which were exterminated through colonisation, the earth is like a goddess and the veneration wherein men are imbued for what they call nature has been a discoursing impediment to the empire of man over the inferior creatures of go."

The Royal Society believed that : To build an empire over life, and to do that they had to define life itself, as not having any self organised capacity any creativity. In English intellectual tradition, superior writers were connected and harmonized and manifested the same ideologies we are under now. They held Unaccountable power- to dominate over the women, dominant the labourers, and animal.

India held 25 % of the world economy to now 2% of the old economy

The world has been pushed to edge by limitless greed and limitless power. 388 people owned half the world, in 2010, in 2019, 5 people.

Extinction rates are 1000 times higher than normal. By declaring the earth as dead, and women as inert, they gave themselves the licence to manipulate. This has resulted to threat to planet, humans and the future.

Biodiversity in the field, the soil, and in the gut is one continuum.

Bacteria posses many cognitive

Computations and evolutionary capability. Studies show that bacteria u and even have the abilities sophisticated mechanism for intercellular communication and even have the ability to commandeer the basic cell biology of the higher plants and animals to meet their basic needs. This remarkable series of observation requires us to revise basic ideas about biological information processing and recognise that even the smallest cells are sentient beings.

The few centuries of "dead earth" is being revived by indigenous thinking as well as new science.

Scientist work with roots, and find out that in the root zone there is more neural activity going on that our human brain. Organic soils have are very rich in fungi call, mycorrhizae that has far more neurological activity and far more communication that the internet.

Size is a Cartesian logic.

Taking away the ecological space of other species is a dictator which includes their habitat and their evolutionary potential (manipulate them).

Ecofeminism- removes the false assumption that we are superior from nature ad powerful men are master of nature and in charge of out future. Some races and some religion are superior than others. It celebrates the creativity of women and creativity of nature.


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