In part this entails a shared sense of the ways in which 'nature' has been used to legitimise gender, sexual and racial norms (so homosexuality has been seen as 'unnatural', for example), but it also involves scepticism about the uses to which 'ecological' language is put in ecocriticism; it can also involve a critique of the ways cultural norms of nature and the environment contribute to environmental degradation.
在某种程度上，这需要人们共同意识到自然被用来指合法性别，性和种族规范的方式（因此，例如同性恋被视为不自然），但是也包括对将生态语言放入生态批评的用法怀疑；它也包括对造成环境恶化的自然和环境文化规范的方式批评。