and women, and between humans and nature. The culture of equity and collaboration cannot be based on hierarchical, sexist system. Men are as part of nature as women; and are as crucial to reproduction and nurturing of life as women are. Ecofeminism is not contra men but against patriarchy, capitalism and environmental exploitation The solution lies in fundamental changes in way of thinking, in perceptions, and in changing actions from life-destroying into life-giving and life-maintaining. The culture of destruction and death has to be transformed into culture valuing life and protecting the right to live. People make political decisions and create socioeconomic structures. We create social norms and ironically it is the “norms” that determinate the way we think, perceive, and act. To change the patriarchal assumptions and methods, linear thinking, dualism, rationality, belief in science and technology has to be challenged and transformed. Believes about power relations, truth, knowledge, and self have to be deconstructed. To recreate the culture into life-nurturing from life-destroying, love and life have to become the dominant values. Only in a society recognizing interdependence and immanence of all living organisms, people can live in harmony with nature. We cannot change the world without changing ourselves; “Consciousness shapes reality; Reality shapes consciousness” (Starhawk, 1982). Part Two Rosemary Radford Ruether's ecofeminist theology, Gaia and God, In the first chapter the author evaluates the legacy of the Christian and Western cultural heritage by exploring three classical creation stories Babylonian, Hebrew, and Greek (platonic). She argues that creation stories are the blueprint for society and that they reflect current science, the assumptions about nature of the world, physical processes, and relationships. They have decreed the relation between humans the divine, nature and society. They both r...
