Ecofeminism opposes the dominant paradigm in green theorizing and rejects its reformist environmentalism—in which opponents say environmental problems are solved by the externalization of their costs (onto developing countries), thereby presenting the Western model of development and knowledge as the only acceptable model for mankind in modernity. Ecofeminism, part and parcel of radical ecology, addresses possibilities for changing the hegemonic patriarchal paradigm whereby nature and women are conflated and delegitimated as inferior, passive, and non-productive categories, by means of domination and exploitation.