The progress in the stature of Western women begins with a veritable liberation and is balanced against social injustice, the exploitation of poor countries, the exportation of deadly armaments and nuclear industries, and devastation of the environment as ends to productivity. The old revolutionary guard clearly showed that the number one interest of capitalist exploitation used to be the private possession of the sources of collectively consumed production. Today, this motivation is reinforced by the need to conserve a unique form of energy in order to insure the centralization of power. In Grenoble, official studies were undertaken on the energy to be gleaned from natural gas , another interesting secondary source of energy. Yet the concentration of energy within a small number of hands is the absolute guarantee of a centralization which remains necessary to the pyramidal organization of a profit-based society born of the foundations of patriarchy.
Capital is but the last stage of patriarchy, just like profit is but the last mask of power.
The two principal factors in the rapid expansion of patriarchy, exhaustion of resources and global population growth , are the distant yet direct causes of the present-day ecological catastrophe. The battle of the sexes merely reflects man's battle against himself, which in the past, and still today, translates to the battle of the classes. Due to the liberation of procreation, population growth controlled by women will solve the first part of the problem. The number of inhabitants on the planet will be reduced completely without prejudice as to humanity's end. The second part of the problem, the question of consumption-production and its relationship to the environment's devastation to the point of exhaustion of its resources obviously concerns men as well as women.