The Power and Promise of Eco-feminism

The Power and Promise of Eco-feminism is noteworthy and helps to provide a different perspective to oppressive conceptual frameworks in combination with our environmental crisis. Ecological feminism claims that the domination of women historically and conceptually is tied to the domination of nature. I am a firm believer in the study of the relationship between human and the environment and the implications that has on our behavioral, social and environmental problems; however, this theory seems to just add to the gap between theory and action.
Warren asserts that we can’t solve the social problem of sexism without attacking the way our patriarchal society conceives of and treats nature. Moreover, she argues that we can’t solve the environmental problem without attacking sexism. Eco-feminism, as argued by Warren, falsely prioritizes feminism as the sole solution to our global impact on the environmental degradation crisis.
Our current environmental crisis is the result of many different frameworks and should present the premise that the complex problems and issues of women and the environment should not be compartmentalized. Instead, the conceptual framework that will facilitate an ethics of stewardship and equality for all life, should posit that the roots of contemporary social, cultural, behavioral, political and environmental issues are intertwined among numerous fields, not just feminism.
Warren effectively makes a case that the global impact of the environmental crisis has had an effect on the lives of women. The degradation of the planet and oppression of women were caused by the same set of attitudes of oppression. However, this theory is lacking in reaching its full potential to motivate and empower people, to bring about serious and urgent change. Eco-feminism, as presented, seems to be restricted and lacks the forward-looking nature and notion of responsibility inherent in our current environmentalist ideology.
However, there is potential in feminism serving an entry point into the environmental ethics realm. Eco-feminism may assist in finding solutions to the environmental crises. But right now, it is restricted and insufficient.