Rebecca Kormos > Quotes

“Clearly, it is not our biology that makes us more vulnerable to severe climatic events or the degradation and pollution of our planet. Women's vulnerability is socially constructed. By taking away rights, forcing women into poverty, piling on chores and responsibilities that take time away from education and employment, restricting attire, movement and information, women are pushed into situations where they become vulnerable.”
― Rebecca Kormos, Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice

“Gender equality cannot be addressed independently of protecting nature. Nor can protecting nature ever by truly sustainable without addressing gender inequality. Gender equality is not a consequence of a restored planet. It is not something to be addressed after we manage to slow greenhouse gas emissions. The rights of women and the protection of nature go hand in hand with a sustainable future - they are integrally connected.”
― Rebecca Kormos, Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice

“Climate change is a social justice and feminist crisis as well as an environmental one.”
― Rebecca Kormos, Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice

“The inequalities of our planetary polycrisis are intersecting too. The number of female deaths due to climate events are directly linked to women's economic standing, but they are also linked to their social rights. Where women and men have equal rights, natural hazards have similar impacts by gender. In other words, climate change has a greater overall impact on those people who are already marginalized, with compounding and intersecting impacts.”
― Rebecca Kormos, Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice

“There is tragic irony in the fact that we are finally realizing that those people who historically have been excluded and marginalized hold the very wisdom the world needs to get out of the mess we are in.”
― Rebecca Kormos, Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice

“As I dug into the research for this book and learned about the ripple effects of women leading and having equal rights, equal pay, equal education, and equal say, it became apparent that empowering women is singularly one of the most important solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss - and that fact is not being talked about enough.”
― Rebecca Kormos, Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice