Abstract
This study focuses on youth-led environmental movements that have expanded since the 2010s, particularly Fridays For Future Japan (FFF Japan), and discusses how an ecofeminist perspective can contribute to solving problems in the social acceptance of their activities FFF Japan is a climate justice but their movement lacks a gender perspective. Environmental issues disproportionately affect minorities, such as women, ethnic minorities, and the poor, and intersect with various social injustices. Therefore, it is essential to actively incorporate an ecofeminist perspective to increase the social acceptability of the environmental movement and to achieve more inclusive social change.
In this study, we focused on the arguments of Vandana Shiva, an Indian ecofeminist, and sought the roots of environmental issues in Western dichotomous thought. The thinking that placed nature and women in an inferior position, formed during the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment, has also functioned as a logic to justify colonial rule and capitalist patriarchy. Ecofeminism repositions environmental issues within a social and ideological context and provides clues to their fundamental solutions. From the above, we conclude that since environmental problems encompass various minority issues, the environmental movement can be fundamentally attached
to the environmental movement because only through ecofeminism can environmental problems be grasped as problems that include minorities.
