The Women’s Environmental Network (WEN) is a UK-based organization set up to “educate, empower, and inform” those to whom the environment is important. One of its main activities in this realm is campaigning on environmental and health issues, but from a woman’s point of view. Formed in 1988, the WEN seeks to connect women, health and the environment.
Environmental Issues
According to its website, the WEN has worked out that with today’s huge amount of consumption, three planets would be necessary to adequately sustain our needs. Given that this is due only to increase, soon five planets would be needed as figures shown the population will exceed nine billion by 2040.
Women and the Environment
So the question that is to be asked, is why is this so much more of an issue for women than men? Apparently, this is because women comprise 66 percent of those impacted by “climate-related disasters in developing economies.”
What’s also sad is that fewer and fewer individuals are connecting these days to “simple pleasures like communal outside spaces and growing their own food.” So there needs to be a change in the way in which we are living.
Women Green Pride
On the flip side of all of this, there is actually a lot being done in this realm, especially by women in the UK. For example, there is a bunch of groups led by women who “every day, take conscious actions to consume less, to use resources more effectively, to raise awareness at grass roots levels about climate change and to engage women and men in community-based projects such as allotments and orchards.” So there is much being done. But there is obviously also, still much more that can be done too.