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The chapter argues that unless eco-socialism is sex-gender literate, it cannot even begin to function as a democratic politics. The essay amplifies eco-feminism using the ecological footprint indicator, and addresses sex-gender differences in energy consumption patterns, preferred solutions to climate change, and policy decision-making styles at international forums like the IPCC. Eco-feminists attend to the logic of women’s reproductive labour, and how it engages a different set of values from those in the productive economic sector. An eco-socialist politics must find a way to accommodate this ‘difference’, if it is to be a globally just and deep green theory and movement.
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This is not to suggest that advocates of the footprint indicator themselves are concerned with gender difference. I wrote to Rethinking Progress about this in 2004 and the reply was - good idea, but not on our research agenda.
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I am thinking here of how governments locate waste disposal sites in poor ethnic neighbourhoods or on indigenous land; or how excessive water use by factories is state subsidised while householders are taxed for it.
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Salleh, A. (2010). How the Ecological Footprint Is Sex-Gendered. In: Huan, Q. (eds) Eco-socialism as Politics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3745-9_9
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