Lakes can die. Entire oceans become polluted. Topsoil, forests, water - poisoned, dead. Things can change so fast. In the hands of man, nature becomes fragile.
Rain becomes acid.
I mean in Salem those women witches were betrayed by other women. Phyllis Schlapley, a woman has written that God's greatest gift to mankind was the atom bomb. I mean these are women. Why can't you just say what's patriarchal is what's evil in both men and women and let it go at that. There's plenty of that to go around.