Humans have a right over nature …Humans have a right over animals … Men have a right over women ... Kings have a right over their subjects … Companies have a right over profits …Gods have a right over men ... Soul is better than the material, because that's how it is and that's how it has been, and that's how it has to be..

(read more on ecofeminism)



Modern worldthinking is based on 'dualism', a world view that orders the world by dividing it into opposed pairs of concept.

One concept in each pair is deemed superior to the other. This 'other' is sometimes demonized and always discriminated against

. This belief system valorizes 'male' qualities of logic, reason and analysis and characterizes intuitive and creative emotional 'female' qualities as passive, weak and irrational and therefore inferior.Some theorists have suggested that this degrading of the 'other' is driven by fear of nature and mortality,and because of their biological connection with birth women are a constant reminder of death.

The classic form of this paradigm creates a hierarchy of value as follows:

Spirit -> Man -> Woman ->Animals -> Nature

This hierarchy clearly shows the common prejudices of sexism and speciesism. Many aspects of racism, classism and imperialism operate through this same hierarchy.

However we want to compartmentalize and "hierarchise" things everything is bound into complex relationships which become mutually reinforcing. And the way hierarchies work is counter productive to the way things work in the complex organic system we call our "world"....

Probably we just need to redfine civilization...