And here's Sabina Zaccaro on the crucial but unsupported role of women in managing climate change, apropos of our earlier discussion of the imperative to address gender justice and the empowerment of women as necessary to furthering an environmental ethic...
http://www.truthout.org/120709smg3
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It seems to me, that issue of gender just has to be mentioned. It's almost gotten to the point of being common sense. Seeing the link between the empowerment of women, and the decrease in childbirth, and this is not even mentioned in the article, yet it is there in numbers. The article talks about women living in environmentally degraded areas and their efforts to stop this from becoming worse. Revelo gives us the example of women preventing deforestation in South America and India. Also, women happen to be among the major agricultural producers in certain countries like Congo. Hopefully the issue of gender will be given its due attention at Copenhagen.
According to the UN commission on gender and labor, worldwide women do 80% of the work and own 10% of the property. Clearly we can accomplish nothing on the requisite scale without taking this fact very seriously, but discussion of issues of direct concern to women is normally confined to women's conferences, rather than being a central pillar of deliberations on all substantive issues.
Even if this issue of gender is not given appropriate attention, the fact of the matter is that woman and their relationship to global issues is an issue that has been apparent for years and is being addressed in this article thanks to Revelo. This is a great read/eye opener for those unaware of the role woman play in everyday life.
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