When I read through each article, they all seemed to encounter similar reactions to their protest. For example, Wangari Maathi discusses her violent fight towards better the lives of the impoverished people in Africa, the same way the indigenous women are fighting for their water. Yet both sides are derailed by the authority of men. We, as women, know the obstacles which we face living in a patriarchal society, now imagine living in this society and not having a voice to protest. This is how nature has been living for centuries, and fortunately, there are some who actually care about how our environment is affected.
When we take these women’s experience into account, the trauma they endure isn’t much different from the injustice which nature endures. One of the indigenous women “…recounted how officers took her to a North Dakota jail last month where, she says, a group of male and female guards forcibly removed her clothes when she refused to strip in front of them (Levin 1).” Metaphorically speaking, it is the same way in which the earth is being stripped of its resources. Humans don’t take into account how the earth will be affected in the long wrong, which is why it is easier for us to just worry about problems as they arise. The women in Africa were taken care of the same way their land was, which is, they weren’t. Just like the soil and the water, Wangari Maathai was treated as though she was expendable. The government over harvested the land and the left the people to solve the problem. The women in Kenya were the ones that did the harvesting and gathering of water, so they are well aware of the state they are forced to live in. There is also a connection between the pollution and the people because they are forcibly connected. The water is polluted, but there aren’t any other sources of water for miles, so they are forced to consume the only water source readily available. The people then become sick and polluted the same way their homes had become because of the government. Lastly, the indigenous women discussed how “…many were locked up for nonviolent offenses or because they were too poor to immediately pay bail. Brown and black people and native people get put away for really doing nothing (Levin 17).” Now let’s take a moment and think about how a lot of the animals on the planet are living. We have zoos, aquariums, PET STORES, animals just locked away, for what? Simply existing. It’s ironic how humans are said to be above animals on the food chain, and yet this category has magically put women on the same level as animals. These women are trying to protect their land and their people, and yet this sees to be an issue. Why is it that our society never seems to learn from its mistakes? You can’t continue to bulldoze over any land you please simply because you want it. Although this isn’t a feminist connection, but the children are connected to our environment as well because some children in poorer families must fight to help their family. 
Think about the boy in Corrêa’s article, he is wading through garbage filled water in order to collect cans for his family. I feel that this is an important connection because this is showing us what our world has already become from us not taking care of it, imagine years from now. It’s crazy how women are supposed to be the one’s fixing the environment, yet men are the main culprits trying to derail our progress.