Climate change and patriarchy pose mounting threats to human wellbeing and the health of our planet, and these factors continue to call into question society’s relationship with the environment. Within a historically imperialist, patriarchal, and hypermasculine society, how do human tendencies to view nature as feminine impact levels of environmental concern? I collected original survey data from Colorado residents using a non-probability sampling (n=233) which investigated the association among environmental concern and the tendencies to gender nature or have hypermasculine or feminist ideologies. Through bivariate and multivariate analysis, I found that gendering nature as feminine has a positive association with high environmental concern. I found feminism to be the single strongest predictor of environmental concern—meaning that the more feminist one is, the more likely they are to have high environmental concern with strong statistical evidence. The social implications of this data are significant and suggest generational and ideological divides in environmental attitudes and behavior. These findings suggest an amplified need for feminist perspectives in climate literacy programs, environmental policy, and the climate activist movement moving forward. There is a continued need for women’s liberation from the global patriarchal consciousness, as well as a dramatic shift in human behaviors to curb the lethal consequences of climate change.</p
