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The Hungry Tide calls for an inclusive approach to equality and conservation by exposing the vulnerability of underprivileged women and the ecology through the interweaving of ecofeminism and environmental justice. Gender and diversity are connected through a number of intersections. The idea that women are the "second sex" is akin to the incapacity to accept diversity, which is mirrored in development ideologies that cause biological diversity to be replaced and eventually exterminated. A patriarchal worldview marginalizes variety and promotes hierarchy by placing man as the primary measure of value. Women are therefore seen as inferior and unequal because they are different. This viewpoint also applies to nature, when variety is commercialized for profit rather than appreciated for its inherent value. Therefore, diversity is troublesome due to commercial criteria, which see it as a deficiency. According to Environmentalists Vandhana Shiva, this ideology fosters the development of monocultures and encourages the erasure of diversity in order to uphold the demands of capitalist patriarchy.