Earth Day 2026: Destroy the patriarchy, not the planet 🌏

A system that exploits people will exploit the planet.

Across Thailand, women-led communities who have stewarded land and water for generations are being pushed out, silenced, and harmed.

This is what patriarchal and extractive systems do: they treat both people and the planet as disposable in the name of profit, control, so-called “development”, and false climate solutions.

From:

• Phichit villagers facing water contamination, air pollution, and health impacts from gold mining

• Sab Wai villagers criminalized as “forest encroachers” on their own land, and forced deeper into poverty under conservation policies that punish people instead of protecting ecosystems and forest guardians

• Indigenous Urak Lawoi (sea people) displaced from their ancestral islands to make way for tourism development

Environmental defenders are mothers, daughters, and community leaders. They are fighting not just for land, but for life, dignity, and justice.

For this year's Earth Day, we must ask: Who is being protected and who is being sacrificed in the name of “development” and false climate solutions?

#IntersectionalEnvironmentalism #ClimateJustice #ClimateAccountability

#WeAreManushyan ♾️ Equal Human Beings