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Eco-Feminism Speech Outline

This is a rough informative speech outline on Eco-feminism. It compiles information found online about the topic of Eco-feminism and how Ecofeminists are responsible for a raising awareness about the earth around us. (Sources not included)

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Eco-Feminism Speech Outline

This is a rough informative speech outline on Eco-feminism. It compiles information found online about the topic of Eco-feminism and how Ecofeminists are responsible for a raising awareness about the earth around us. (Sources not included)

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Outline: Ecofeminism Today

Thesis Statement: How Ecofeminists are responsible for a raising awareness about the earth around us. Main Point #1: So what is Ecofeminism? Ecofeminism embraces the idea that the oppression of women and the oppression or destruction of nature are closely connected(show image) 'Female' qualities such as co-operation, nurturing, being supportive, nonviolent and sensual are especially appropriate for creating an environmentally aware society. Most Ecofeminists believe that men have as much potential as women to adopt a deeper environmental awareness, but they will need to work harder to fully embrace those values. Ecofeminists address issues such as... o Water pollution o Deforestation o Agricultural development and sustainability o Animal Rights o Nuclear weapon policies

Main Point #2: How does ecofeminism compare to feminism? Feminism: promotes equal social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men. Believe soft feminine qualities are imposed by our society Ecofeminism: promotes feminine qualities and embrace that women are more nurturing, peaceful, co-operative and closer to nature than men. Ecofeminists do not seek equality with men as such, but aim for a liberation of women as women. The emphasis is on shared power, finding our own 'power-from-within' rather than needing to impose the manipulation and control of 'power-over'. All this while maintaining that as women that are so closely connected to nature we must work to protect it and ourselves Main Point #3 Ecofeminist Movements Green Belt Movement o While serving the the national council of women in 1976, Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai introduced the idea to plants trees to conserve the local environment.

As interest widened, Maathai developed her local tree planting effort into a grassroots organization that spread to other African countries and eventually became the Green Belt Movement. o Helped women plant more the 30 million trees Love Canal o Neighborhood in Niagara falls, ny o Love Canal homemaker Lois Gibbs became concerned for her children when they began exhibiting chronic, unexplained illnesses. o Gibbs became an activist in 1978 and started working on behalf of her neighborhood in an effort to investigate the area's health concerns. o dozens of residents came forward, attesting to unexplained illnesses, miscarriages and birth defects o through the residents' research and activism, they eventually discovered that their neighborhood rested on tons of chemical waste. o Gibbs went on to establish the Center for Health, Environment and Justice. Chipko o In 1974, a group of about thirty women in the Himalayas of Northern India united to save more than 10,000 square miles of forest watershed. o Chipko in Hindi means to cling, reflecting the protesters main technique of throwing their arms around the tree trunks designated to be cut, and refusing to move. o Actually started the term tree hugging and coined the phrase' What do the forests bear? Soil, water and pure air'. o The success of the Chipko movement in the hills saved thousands of trees from being felled.

Main Point #4: Shiva Vandana Shiva was a participant in the Chipko movement during the 1970s and is considered to be one of the foremost ecofeminists today. Vandana Shiva was born in the valley of Dehradun in India o to a father who was the conservator of forests and a farmer o mother with a love for nature. Shiva was trained as a physicist, but began her work as an environmentalist and ecofeminist activist while participating in Chipko. Dr. Vandana Shiva has fought for changes in the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food. She has assisted grassroots organizations of the Green movement in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Ireland, Switzerland, and Austria with campaigns against genetic engineering. In 1982, she founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, which led to the creation of Navdanya in 1991, a national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially native seed, the promotion of organic farming and fair trade

Time Magazine identified Dr. Shiva as an environmental "hero" in 2003, and Asia Week has called her one of the five most powerful communicators of Asia. Authore of many books. According to her article Empowering Women,[27] Shiva suggests that o a more sustainable and productive approach to agriculture can be achieved through reinstating a system of farming in India that is more centered on engaging women o advocates against the prevalent "patriarchal logic of exclusion," claiming that a woman-focused system would change the current system in an extremely positive manner

Main Point #5) Why ecofeminism is important today

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