Mies And Shiva Analysis

PART II. 1. The myths of development as progress that are presented by Mies and Shiva is through science and technology. Modern science sees itself as universal, that the thinking behind it brings conclusions or answers about life, people, our planet, basically everything, examples of this is scientific advancements such as the Scientific Revolution and it claims to benefit everyone (Shiva., pg. 22). This is not true as feminists and Mies and Shiva argue, and have found that development and the Scientific Revolution, only benefits privileged white males, and degrades women and nature (Shiva., pg. 22). Shiva also puts emphasis on the fact that science is seen as the mind and is always right, but that is not the case, science can be ignorant. An example in the book, is when women are delivering babies, if doctors or science tell women they must do a C section, and women say no that they know her own bodies and want the birth to be natural, they are seen as in the wrong (Shiva., pg. 23). Women are seen as in the wrong because science told her otherwise, even though she was the one …show more content…
The ecological consequences of mining, as presented by Grahame Russell, show that Canada and the owners of these mining companies are exploiting the workers of the mining companies in Guatemala and Honduras, as well as the environment and nature around it. From these mines, comes a rapid loss of ecosystems and extinctions of local populations, poverty, corruption of the country, racism and constant raping and destroying of the land. Since the destruction of the land, the people located around the mines have to deal with forced evictions as rich Canadian mine owners continue to pollute and contaminate their earth, as they are now seen to own everything above and below it. Examples of this include; eviction due to unsafe drinking water or the inability to grow and produce food because of soil destruction. As well as air pollution, explosives and having to live in the midst of