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Starhawk is a pagan activist, known both for her work with the revival of pagan, earth-based, spirituality, and her work as an environmental activist. In fact, she runs a program called [|Earth Activist Training], which teaches students about earth-based religion, permaculture, and political activism. I am not sure what it means to leverage a description for analytic insight, but after I googled "social theoretical question," I found a question on wikipedia that seems to be very similar to Starhawk's mission: Did the development of modern societies, with vast inequalities in wealth among citizens, constitute progress? Maybe a better, more specific, question would be, did the development of modern society, with globalized religions and agriculture, constitute progress.

Description of Starhawk:
 * activist in many arenas
 * blogger
 * speaker
 * writer of books
 * Female
 * believes that the Earth is alive and it is our (humanity's) job to take care of the Earth
 * Spiritual
 * Feminist
 * Powerful (and aware of her power - that is part of the pagan religion as well as the feminist movement, perhaps permaculture not as much because it is about Earth's power? or is it about the planter's power to control the Earth? I think it is about the power of people working //with// the Earth)
 * Problem solver - she doesn't believe it's too late to fix what is wrong in terms of climate change
 * she has holistic views on how to change things - in her [|blog] she usually mentions three different things: political, spiritual, and moral or political, spiritual, and practical, etc.
 * she doesn't just complain about the problems in the world, in addition to being an activist against "bad" she presents what is "good" and how to get there