Women in the global south are effected by environmental degradation by the fact that women are generally in charge of water supply and the household. With challenges of obtaining water and sanitation, it becomes harder for women to do anything more than their Housley duties. As necessities become more easily obtained, then the people in charge of obtaining and doing the chores with the necessities will slowly be able to have more time to focus on more than the fundamentals.
Agarwal makes strong points about how since women are generally more in nature to gather the resources needed, they would be more engaged with it. Also there is an argument on how each persons’ experience creates the views of how nature is seen. “At the same time, in the course of their everyday interactions with nature, they acquire a special knowledge of species varieties and the processes of natural regeneration.”(pg8) The quote I would say is essentially saying every one has their own experiences and their views are based on subjective experiences. I would go as far to say that most of existence is subjective and groups of people can have the same experience, but have entirely different truths of what happened. In previous readings there is a believe that women and the environment must unite and demand fundamental socioeconomic change. In Agarwal, she argues there needs to be decentralization and include people from the bottom up. Including all peoples and inform and help them in a process to better their environment and lives.
Overall, I believe every approach needs to be utilized. Incorporating all ideas and testing what seems to work best, which in truth will be a combination of a few ideas. Just like in renewable energy, there is more than one way to solve a problem.