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Women Are The Answer To Solve The World,

Men Are The Question: Will they step up to the task?

Christyl Rivers, Phd.
5 min readJul 2, 2019
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The issues

Women, or more specifically, equality — for males and females — is an important solution to solve Earth’s problems. Of course, it is not the only way. In fact, we need every solution at this time. We need all hands-on deck for finding ways to defend Spaceship Earth.

The other day I noticed that the most recent whitehouse scandal pitted powerful men against the credibility of yet another accusing woman. This happens again and again. I think it’s because it is so much easier to see men and women, as adversaries, rather than allies. It sells better.

Our issues are too big for such stalemates. Each of us has to learn to see past the sensationalization of these incidents, and look for a higher path.

Here are just four of the many issues we need to address:

A climate and extinction crisis, the threat of war and/or nuclear destruction , technology (the rise of AI, gene editing, surveillance, etc.) and the constant creep of income and class divide.

I am going to briefly examine each challenge in turn.

We are in a Climate Crisis, and the old model of twentieth century authority, and polluting…

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Christyl Rivers, Phd.
Christyl Rivers, Phd.

Written by Christyl Rivers, Phd.

Ecopsychologist, Writer, Farmer, Defender of reality, and Cat Castle Custodian.

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