Unknown to many women, their day-to-day actions can cause great harm to themselves and people around them. From simply lighting a fire every morning, to collecting water or washing our bodies and clothes, waste permeates our environment, and the impacts (such as hormonal disruption, reproductive impacts, energy and health) are little spoken of, nor is such information known, or more often, shared. In most parts of the world, waste at home is 'managed' by women, with direct and indirect consequences. This open forum seeks to outline some of these impacts, their sources, the agenda behind products, packaging and processes, including so-called 'waste management', and some strategies towards avoiding these negative impacts, particularly on women and children. Even subtle-in-action yet pervasive and long-term wastes, such as uranium and 'depleted uranium' as war waste, have massive impact but are conveniently ignored by those in power as this promotes the agenda of their backers. Waste is deliberately made - and a key component in the battle for planetary resources. Are there alternatives? Who is responsible? What drives these pervasive impacts? Are people in general, and women in particular, powerless to change this?
From: Agenda 73 (2007)
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Serials Librarian,
These are profound thoughts - and superb questions! Why are we as women allowing what is unquestionably, predominently MEN to waste our planet with these disastrously destructive radioactive, chemical, and biological weapons of war? I have devoted the past year to researching and writing about Uranium weapons - and I can find no sane reason why these psychopaths are ruining the planet.
Even more disturbing is - Why aren't we doing more to stop them? Mothers must simply not know! We must tell them! It is up to us to be the Minute(wo)men of our day and age!
Cathy Garger
www.mytown.ca/garger
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