On Tue, 25 Apr 1995, Carol Meeds WPB 407-433-2650 x 113 wrote:
> This is in response to the request for discusssion based on class
> not gender. The request makes me uneasy. The list is ecofem. I
> have an expectation that items discussed will have some link to
> either ecology or feminism.
Well, just to hesitantly put this out....
I think that anything that relates to discrimination, whether gender or
class or whatever, is integrally related to the environment. People
who discriminate against others are suffering, by and large from
"mono-ism", and often times not only believe that one race is better
and preferable to another, but also subscribe to one-wayism in all
kinds of areas. I think it is no accident that some of the racsist are
also anti-environment, anti-choice, basically anti-diversity. And
Anti-diversity if just another form of "mono-ism". If one is
anti-diversity, which most racists are when it comes to the work place,
then the other things are usually there as well. And it all roots from fear.
The Earth is a very diverse organism, it is through diversity that life
springs, without it we would have no life nor evolution. Mono-agriculture,
and mono-culture are two examples of stagnation and death caused by a
lack of diverse influence which stimulates growth. The Earth won't
survive if diversity is not only tolerated by actually encouraged....
>
> Is the experience of the woman environmentalist the same as the
> experience of something else called a class? What class am I? Am
> I the working class because I work? Am I the professional class
> because I have a degree, wear a jacket and have an office? Am I
> the lower class because I don't get paid enough? Or am I some
> upper-middle-lower hybrid?
>
You are a person. I don't think being a woman environmentalist is a "class."
There are people of all economic backgrounds that value the Earth.
Unfortunately, the upper economic "class" is less populated with us,
because they have usually gained their monies from the industries which
destroy the environment. The "lower classes" (I hate these words!)
usually have more at stake because they are often times directly
subjected to environmental racism. And here's a new thread! It's no
secret that minority groups, lower economic groups are more susceptible to
toxins from industry, to dumping etc. And that some of this
environmental degradation causes problems healthwise and developmentally
wise so that these folks may never break out of their predicament.
Capitalism, by and large, is a environmentall racist system.
Joy Williams
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Scion in the Church of All Worlds
"The Garrulous Grok Flok"
Thou Art Goddess!
