"Climate change is already under way with unpredictable consequences. Evidence of changes to the earth's physical, chemical and biological processes is obvious everywhere. Greenhouse gas emissions have increased the carbon cycle concentration in the atmosphere. In the past, half of this carbon was stored in forests, while the other half was removed by oceans, but with deforestation and warming oceans, oxygen is at its lowest breathable point.Climate change deepens ethical issues explored and discussed by ecofeminists around the world. This book describes the academic field of material ecofeminism, provides an overview of the land question, and explores how reigning discourses of "sustainable development" have led to a commodification of nature and have effaced the multiple visions, uses, and relationships of local human communities. The articles in this book are spaces of political projects and values that nurture anticapitalist, antipatriarchal, and anticolonial oppressions. We argue that the centrality of resisting the colonization of Mother Earth and Pachamama is supreme."--
Climate chaos: mother earth under threat / Ana Isla -- Money or life? What makes us really rich? / Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen -- Deconstructing necrophilia: eco/feminist perspectives on the perversion of death and love / Irene Friesen Wolfstone -- The guardians of conga lagoons: defending land, water and freedom in Peru / Ana Isla -- Ecofeminism, commons and climate justice / Patricia E. (Ellie) Perkins -- Finite disappointments or infinite hope: working through tensions with transnational feminist movements / Dorothy Attakora-Gyan -- Sasipihkeyihtamowin: niso nehiyaw iskwewak / Margaret Kress -- Climate change and environmental racism: what payments for ecosystem services means for peasants and indigenous people / Ana Isla -- Biotechnology and biopiracy: plant-based contraceptives in the Americas and the (mis)management of nature / Rachel O'Donnell -- Building food sovereignty through ecofeminism in Kenya: from capitalist to commoners' agricultural value chains / Leigh Brownhill, Wahu M. Kaara, Terisa E. Turner -- Monsanto and patenting of life: primitive accumulation in the twenty-first century / Jennifer Bonato -- "I know my own body . . . they lied": race, knowledge, and environmental sexism in Institute, WV and Old Bhopal, India / Reena Shadaan -- Water is worth more than gold: ecofeminism and gold mining in the Dominican Republic / Klaire Gain -- Indigenous Andoas uprising: defending territorial integrity and autonomy in Peru / Ana Isla -- The "greening" of Costa Rica: a war against subsistence / Ana Isla -- Earth love: finding our way back home / Ronnie Joy Leah.