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The history of male dominance is embedded in “polarization, instrumentalism, autonomy, universalization, and power over others”; the implications of this “androcentric premise,” are the underlying causes of the modern crisis.
Gaard, Greta Claire. Ecofeminism. Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1993. 13-59. Print

The legacy of the history of the male dominance
AND
the androcentric premise prevents our questioning the necessity of power relationships per se. 

The affirmative creates hierarchies between the preservation of our natural organic environment and economic growth; this frame of mind facilitates the exponential destruction of the nonhuman environment  
Gaard, Greta Claire. Ecofeminism. Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1993. 13-59. Print
The other superficial ground for optimism
AND
environmental quality for economic growth. 

Human-centered rationality treats humanity as separate from nature, which paves the way for humans to use nature at their disposal as a mass of undifferentiated beings
Plumwood 02 Val: Australian Research Council Fellow at University of Sydney –002 Environmental Culture: The ecological crisis of reason Routledge nb p. 111-113
The main theme of ecological thinkers
AND
such as conventional economics.

Constant usage and consumption of nature depletes nature – culminating in extinction.
Nhanenge 07 Jytte: Master of Arts at the development studies at the University of South Africa “Ecofeminism: Towards Integrating the concerns of women _{poor people and nature into development” http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/570/dissertation.pdf?sequence=1.
Nature is by the economic individual perceived as
AND
when nature dies, also humanity will perish.} 

Alt: The alternative is to reject the affirmative and endorse an Ecofeminist pedagogy.
We must expose patriarchy and disconnect from concepts of “masculinity,” as that of “power over,” others and the rejections/denigration of the “feminine.” Our approach is key to solving for the comprehension of patriarchal culture.
Gaard, Greta Claire. Ecofeminism. Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1993. 13-59. Print
However, the very essence of ecofeminism
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resentment-behind the dominance of patriarchal culture with hierarchical, militaristic, mechanistic, industrial forms.” 

And only after rejection of masculinity can the whole strucutre collapse.
Gaard, Greta Claire. Ecofeminism. Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1993. 13-59. Print

I have suggested that problems created by power relations
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The work, howeverm is its own reward. 

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---The Current Capitalist Crisis Signals The Final Collapse of Capitalism. 4 reasons.  Limits to growth, declining demand, chaos, and shitty policy making.---
Bifo 09 Franco Bifo Berardi Italian philosopher, activists. Communism is back but we should call it the therapy of singularisation
http://www.generation-online.org/p/fp_bifo6.htm
Economists and politicians are worried
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The capitalist paradigm can no longer be the universal rule of the human activity.

---Anti-capitalist movement emerging in the sq.---
Jones ’12 Jonny Jones The shock of the new: anti-capitalism and the crisis http://www.isj.org.uk/?id=796
 The past 18 months have seen the transformation of anti-capitalist politics across the world
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It is more accurate to think of the various national manifestations of revolt against the crisis as being part of a movement 

---If The Affirmatives Effort to Resolve the Economic, Energy, and Ecological Crises is Successful it will come at the Expense of Global Circuits of Resistance Further Entrenching Capitalistic Social Relation. ---
De Angelis and Abramsky 08  Massimo De Angelis and Kolya Abramsky. The Commoner: Issue 13, Introduction: Energy Crisis (Among Others) Is In The Air.  
energy and technology are both important sites of struggle
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Hence, the planners’ coming pragmatism might help capital to create a common ground with some sections of the environmental movement

---Preservation of Capitalism results in eco-catastrophe, famine, war, and Extinction.---
Cook 06 Deborah Professor of Philosophy, University of Windsor, 2006, “Staying Alive: Adorno and Habermas on Self-Preservation Under Late Capitalism.”
society must be fundamentally transformed in order rationally to accommodate instincts that now run wild owing to our forgetfulness of nature in ourselves
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we remain in thrall to untamed survival instincts that could well end up destroying not just the entire species, but all life on the planet.

--- It’s try or die either popular movements will successfully resist repressive forces in the transition or the worst features of capitalism will be replicated in the future.---
Wallerstein ‘04, Immanuel, Yale Sociologist, 2004, A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible?, p. 271
If, as I have argued elsewhere, the modern world-system is in structural crisis, and we have entered an ‘age of transition’
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we shall see if it is able to maintain this openness. 

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Stage 1: El Arrebato
Every arrebato rips you from your familiar "home.” You question who you are, and what the world is about. The urgency to know what you're experiencing awakens la facultad-the ability to shift and see through the surface of situations. With the loss of the familiar and unknown ahead, you struggle to regain balance, reintegrate yourself and repair the damage. Giving you a chance to reconstruct yourself, forcing you to rework your description of self, world and your place in it (reality).

Stage 2: Nepantla
Catapulted into nepantla you are in transitional space, suspended between shifts, two people, split between before and after. You experience reality as fluid. Exposed, open to other perspectives, more readily able to access knowledge derived from inner feelings, imaginal states, and outer events to "see through" human acts—individual and collective—to examine the ways you construct knowledge, identity, reality, and explore how your/other's constructions violate other ways of knowing and living. 

Stage 3: the Coatlicue State
Overwhelmed by the chaos caused by living in Nepantla, you break down, descend into the third space, the Coatlicue depths of despair, self-loathing, and hopelessness. Dysfunctional for weeks, the refusal to move paralyzes you.

"resolved"
Michael, Shapiro. Professor at the University of Hawaii 1996 Challenging Boundaries by Shapiro and Akler, University of Minnesota Press, pg 53 wdc T. 

we should not base our decisions on whether or not the plan is less violent than the status quo because as long as we live in a colonial world those options are not innocent
Martin Hagglun 04 (phd candidate in compartive literature at Cornell University. The John Hopkins University Press, "The Necessity of Discrimination: Disjoining Derrida and Levinas" , pg 47-48)

Stage 4: Call to Action
 A call to action pulls you out of your depression, calling you to speak against and resist the despairs experienced in the Coatlicue state. You are thrust into action with the need to respond. 

Stage 5: Personal Tales of Growth  
Desire for order and meaning prompts you to sift, sort, and symbolize your experiences arranging them into a pattern and story speaking to your reality and creating a new narrative articulating your personal reality. You scrutinize and question dominant and ethnic and the mind-sets your cultures induce in others. Putting all the pieces together, you re-envision the map of the known world, creating a new description of reality and scripting a new story.

We need to give these ancient sources new nouns and new meanings.
Anzaldua, Glora and AnaLouise Keating. This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation. New York: Routledge, 2002. Print. 

Stage 6: The Blow up—clash of realities
You take your story out into the world, testing it. When you or the world fail to live up to your ideals, your edifice collapses casting you into conflict with self and others in a war between realities. 

Stage 7: Shifting Realities  
The critical turning point of transformation, you shift realities, develop an ethical, compassionate strategy with which to negotiate conflict and difference within self and between others, and find common ground by forming holistic alliances.

Anzaldua and Keating discuss conocimiento
Anzaldua, Gloria and AnaLouise Keating. Interviews/Entrevistas with Gloria Anzaldua. New York: Routledge, 2000. Print.