THE RELEVANCE OF ECOFEMINISM IN AN ECOLOGICAL DEMOCRACY TO OVERCOME THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND RESPOND TO THE GROWTHISM OF CAPITALISM

Abstract

As the realization that the climate crisis will have a serious, widespread, and irreversible impact on humans and ecosystems leading to an unstable future has grown, efforts to find and practice coexistence and empathy with nature have also increased. At the same time, the influence of discussions that reflect on and criticize the dichotomy of modern science, in which the capitalist economy has destroyed nature and downgraded it as a resource, is growing. Ecological democracy (ecodemocracy) aims for a realistic practical movement to achieve values such as ecological sustainability, the right to life of all beings, equality, the rights of future generations, cooperation, deliberation, and autonomy.

   Ecofeminism is an ideology that combines feminism as a human rights movement and the ecology movement with the awareness and practice of protecting the environment, which includes all beings on Earth. Ecofeminists such as Vandana Shiva, Donna Haraway, Maria Mies, and Ariel Salleh are playing an important role in overcoming the climate crisis and fighting for ecodemocracy in response to capitalist growthism through the values of biological and cultural diversity and interconnectedness.