Gloria Steinem is an amazing journalist and political activist and it's too bad she has to field such awful questions from an interviewer at ABC News' Nature's Edge. Still, she's able to make it worth watching, talking about how climate is connected to women's rights and population. 

 

Some important quotes to take home:

-"The overpopulation is still the biggest reason for global warming, for all the pressure on the environment."

-"The truth is that global warming is a nuclear holocaust slowed down slightly."

"The important thing, I think, about both ecofeminism, as a term, and deep ecology ... is that we are part of nature, not separate."

"There's no concept of enough. There's no concept of overdeveloped. We talk about underdeveloped; how come we never talk about overdeveloped? This country is overdeveloped. There's no concept of enough money, of enough children, of balance."

Check out another part of the ABC News segment. It has more background on Steinem and she talks how about how climate change hurts women more than men.

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