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Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice
A powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planet
For readers of All We Can Save and Braiding Sweetgrass , Rebecca Kormos’s Intertwined aims to elevate the voices of women most impacted by the biodiversity and climate crises, weaving together their stories to make a powerful case for why women are essential to changing our current trajectory toward global warming, environmental degradation, and loss of biodiversity. The data are overwhelming that climate change does not impact everyone equally; the majority of people displaced by droughts, floods, tsunamis, and fires are women. Yet women are underrepresented at every level of decision-making about the future of our only 24 percent of CEOs in nonprofit conservation are women, and fewer than a third of the representatives in national and global climate negotiating bodies are female. Seasoned writer, wildlife biologist, filmmaker, and practicing conservation scientist Rebecca Kormos joins the ranks of recent breakthrough efforts to showcase women’s voices in the movement to combat climate change and takes this endeavor one step further with a global, intersectional narrative of how women and gender nonconforming individuals are doing the crucial work at the local and national levels to reframe how we think about environmental activism. The book closes with an inspiring call for women’s leadership at all levels of climate justice.
For readers of All We Can Save and Braiding Sweetgrass , Rebecca Kormos’s Intertwined aims to elevate the voices of women most impacted by the biodiversity and climate crises, weaving together their stories to make a powerful case for why women are essential to changing our current trajectory toward global warming, environmental degradation, and loss of biodiversity. The data are overwhelming that climate change does not impact everyone equally; the majority of people displaced by droughts, floods, tsunamis, and fires are women. Yet women are underrepresented at every level of decision-making about the future of our only 24 percent of CEOs in nonprofit conservation are women, and fewer than a third of the representatives in national and global climate negotiating bodies are female. Seasoned writer, wildlife biologist, filmmaker, and practicing conservation scientist Rebecca Kormos joins the ranks of recent breakthrough efforts to showcase women’s voices in the movement to combat climate change and takes this endeavor one step further with a global, intersectional narrative of how women and gender nonconforming individuals are doing the crucial work at the local and national levels to reframe how we think about environmental activism. The book closes with an inspiring call for women’s leadership at all levels of climate justice.
336 pages, Hardcover
Published April 30, 2024
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June 19, 2024
I DNF’d at 40%. It was a total fact dump, and no narrative where there was so much opportunity to do so. It read like one long article.
August 20, 2024
An amazing book that everybody who thinks they can't do anything to fight against climate disaster should read and share with their daughters (and sons). Recently, CNN has been featuring a series of deeply moving and tragic photos showing how women are disproportionately impacted by the destruction of our climate. This book takes its point of departure in this (way too little known) fact, but then tells us unforgettable stories about what women all over the world are doing to fight back . The author, who is also a beautiful and almost poetic writer whose love of nature and wildlife lights up every chapter, has conducted exhaustive research. Women, it turns out, are entirely underrepresented in leadership roles in organizations and conferences addressing climate change. Surprise, surprise - -yes, but I did not think about this before. To save our planet, this book argues, we need to empower and support women at all levels --go Kamala but also the remarkable grassroots leaders portrayed in this book and all the other women like them. I loved Braiding Sweetgrass, but this book is even better.
August 23, 2024
I love this inspirational book! In this book “Intertwined: Women, Nature and Climate Justice” Rebecca Kormos writes with a scientific and poetic personal lens about her experiences and how she has seen the world change in the last few decades with climate impact. She writes passionately about her own personal experiences in her beloved Gabon where she started out as a young scientist reporting in the field and how over the decades this beautiful jungle and its creatures have been severely impacted by deforestation and mining. She writes about the indigenous native American Ohlone women from the San Francisco Bay area whose ancestral burial grounds have been desecrated by “development” and their matriarchal society was lost during colonization, and how they are “re-matriating” their culture. Kormos’s book is a clarion call for all women to awaken their sleeping warrior and join other women to reclaim their power to heal, to teach and to lead in climate change issues. It is also a fascinating report of those brave women who are already doing this work.
Her chapters are categorized analogous to how a tree grows, from the roots of climate change, to the trunk (mother nature, mother earth), branches (interconnected movements of climate change) to the leaves that have sprouted from this wonderful tree! There are quotes in the book describing the miracle and beauty of nature - “a leaf makes sugar from air and water” and her prose describing her personal motivation to protect nature takes you right into the jungle with her -the smells of vanilla, the textures of the trees, the colors of the bright fruit. She takes you to the jungles of Africa, India and Asia to speak with women who care and are doing difficult environmental work despite their obstacles. This is an informative and beautiful call to action for all humans, nature lovers, but especially women. Because she tells us that women have a unique untapped potential to heal our planet. And yet, she tells us, that women are so underrepresented in leadership positions for NGOs, climate organizations, that seek to heal our planet. She argues that women need more leadership seats at the table of climate change. And she describes with unequivocal and stark detail that women (and children and elderly) suffer the most during climate disasters and famines that follow and why.
She tells the story of a team of female rangers who protect Kenya from poachers and how they passed the grueling ranger test, while the male trainees had failed! The reason for their strength to endure this three-day long test of constant movement, very little sleep and very little food, she writes, is that most of them had endured much worse growing up in a world of male sexual violence, and hunger, since women suffer more when there is famine, as a result of climate change. They had developed what Rebecca calls “absolute raw grit”!
Kormos challenges our society’s vocabulary around nature; for example, the use of the name “mother nature”; if you google this, she says, images appear (from our patriarchal society) as a sexy goddess bearing fruit with breast heavy and full belly. This, she says depicts women as a sex object or birth vessel, but Mother Nature, she says, is truly so much more. She also accounts that many indigenous cultures, to whom we are now ironically asking for help in climate change, do not see this entity as only female as their elders were both male and female with equal power. Additionally, and most important is how the world views so called “less developed” countries on only financial scales. She points out that by empowering women, there are benefits that flow to their children, their communities and their environment at local, national and global scales.
When I think of Mother Nature, I think of her as an extremely powerful being on the earth (who is pissed off now) and could very easily wipe every human off the face of the planet! This could happen and the Earth would still survive in some form whatever Mother Nature wants it to be!! Or perhaps this is a call to us from Mother Nature to wake up the sleeping female warrior in all of us that may have always been there since the beginning of time. In evidence of this Kormos recounts that the 35,000-year-old ivory carvings, found in Germany were actually women hunters (not men) as our patriarchal society assumed.
Kormos writes about women as very strong and certainly not a weaker or more vulnerable sex, but that our patriarchal and capitalistic society has placed restrictions on women that have made them vulnerable; such as lesser earning power, child bearing, family care, unpaid domestic work to name a few. Kormos argues that three things are most important to empower women to help heal our planet from climate catastrophe –
1) Education
2) Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
3) Land ownership.
All three of which women have enjoyed for some time in the US, the UK, and other so called “developed” countries. However, Kormos writes that the Global South in the less “developed” countries, women do NOT have these basic things. Think about this!
Kormos's book details and documents all her sources and provides a volume of biographies of the women doing the work, references, almost a go-to starter book for any woman, or any human who wants to get involved in reversing climate change. This book provides HOPE in the untapped female “raw grit” to challenge the doubt we may feel about reversing climate change. She powerfully argues that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is the key to the future of the planet.
In this US election year, we have heard the call to put a woman in charge; a “joyful warrior”- perhaps now is the time!
If you have ever had any inspiration to work on reversing climate change this is the book to read NOW!
Her chapters are categorized analogous to how a tree grows, from the roots of climate change, to the trunk (mother nature, mother earth), branches (interconnected movements of climate change) to the leaves that have sprouted from this wonderful tree! There are quotes in the book describing the miracle and beauty of nature - “a leaf makes sugar from air and water” and her prose describing her personal motivation to protect nature takes you right into the jungle with her -the smells of vanilla, the textures of the trees, the colors of the bright fruit. She takes you to the jungles of Africa, India and Asia to speak with women who care and are doing difficult environmental work despite their obstacles. This is an informative and beautiful call to action for all humans, nature lovers, but especially women. Because she tells us that women have a unique untapped potential to heal our planet. And yet, she tells us, that women are so underrepresented in leadership positions for NGOs, climate organizations, that seek to heal our planet. She argues that women need more leadership seats at the table of climate change. And she describes with unequivocal and stark detail that women (and children and elderly) suffer the most during climate disasters and famines that follow and why.
She tells the story of a team of female rangers who protect Kenya from poachers and how they passed the grueling ranger test, while the male trainees had failed! The reason for their strength to endure this three-day long test of constant movement, very little sleep and very little food, she writes, is that most of them had endured much worse growing up in a world of male sexual violence, and hunger, since women suffer more when there is famine, as a result of climate change. They had developed what Rebecca calls “absolute raw grit”!
Kormos challenges our society’s vocabulary around nature; for example, the use of the name “mother nature”; if you google this, she says, images appear (from our patriarchal society) as a sexy goddess bearing fruit with breast heavy and full belly. This, she says depicts women as a sex object or birth vessel, but Mother Nature, she says, is truly so much more. She also accounts that many indigenous cultures, to whom we are now ironically asking for help in climate change, do not see this entity as only female as their elders were both male and female with equal power. Additionally, and most important is how the world views so called “less developed” countries on only financial scales. She points out that by empowering women, there are benefits that flow to their children, their communities and their environment at local, national and global scales.
When I think of Mother Nature, I think of her as an extremely powerful being on the earth (who is pissed off now) and could very easily wipe every human off the face of the planet! This could happen and the Earth would still survive in some form whatever Mother Nature wants it to be!! Or perhaps this is a call to us from Mother Nature to wake up the sleeping female warrior in all of us that may have always been there since the beginning of time. In evidence of this Kormos recounts that the 35,000-year-old ivory carvings, found in Germany were actually women hunters (not men) as our patriarchal society assumed.
Kormos writes about women as very strong and certainly not a weaker or more vulnerable sex, but that our patriarchal and capitalistic society has placed restrictions on women that have made them vulnerable; such as lesser earning power, child bearing, family care, unpaid domestic work to name a few. Kormos argues that three things are most important to empower women to help heal our planet from climate catastrophe –
1) Education
2) Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
3) Land ownership.
All three of which women have enjoyed for some time in the US, the UK, and other so called “developed” countries. However, Kormos writes that the Global South in the less “developed” countries, women do NOT have these basic things. Think about this!
Kormos's book details and documents all her sources and provides a volume of biographies of the women doing the work, references, almost a go-to starter book for any woman, or any human who wants to get involved in reversing climate change. This book provides HOPE in the untapped female “raw grit” to challenge the doubt we may feel about reversing climate change. She powerfully argues that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is the key to the future of the planet.
In this US election year, we have heard the call to put a woman in charge; a “joyful warrior”- perhaps now is the time!
If you have ever had any inspiration to work on reversing climate change this is the book to read NOW!
August 20, 2024
I am still trudging through this book but yikes! A total storm of statistics without narrative, barely any heart, or sense of purpose at all. I find it funny that the author spends an entire section meticulously explaining how women living in the global south are often the ones who experience the brunt of social and climate injustice, and then in the end of that chapter says that the photographic media depictions of them struggling, shown in campaigns of organizations that raise charity funds for refugees and spread awareness of their struggle, simply “perpetuate gender and racial stereotypes.” Did you not just spend an entire chapter explaining how they are not stereotypes and are in fact real life manifestations of race and gender based poverty and injustice? It feels like a run-on college thesis turned into a book, which is really disappointing because I was excited to read it given the premise. 3 stars for now because I have yet to finish and I’m feeling generous.
August 9, 2024
I knew this was an important book, so I wanted to finish it but I had a lot of trouble.
This is Kormos’ first published book, but I can tel it isn’t her first publication. This reads like a science journal submission, because her background is just that- primatologist, wildlife biology, conservationist, among other very well respected fields she’s worked in. I didn’t go into the book knowing this, and it reminds me a lot of when I was studying for my anthropology degree.
This is a hard book for the average consumer because it only has brief periods of engagement followed by quotes, statistics, facts- heavy stuff. So much data really that it is hard to digest it all.
As another reviewer commented, Kormos only briefly touches LGBTQ+ related issues. It feels like that community is just kind of looped together with women’s issues throughout the book. And while there is valid overlap, there are also big differences that separate these groups. Both have the space for valid conversations/ publications.
I’m not unhappy I read this book at all. I just wouldn’t suggest it to the average reader.
This is Kormos’ first published book, but I can tel it isn’t her first publication. This reads like a science journal submission, because her background is just that- primatologist, wildlife biology, conservationist, among other very well respected fields she’s worked in. I didn’t go into the book knowing this, and it reminds me a lot of when I was studying for my anthropology degree.
This is a hard book for the average consumer because it only has brief periods of engagement followed by quotes, statistics, facts- heavy stuff. So much data really that it is hard to digest it all.
As another reviewer commented, Kormos only briefly touches LGBTQ+ related issues. It feels like that community is just kind of looped together with women’s issues throughout the book. And while there is valid overlap, there are also big differences that separate these groups. Both have the space for valid conversations/ publications.
I’m not unhappy I read this book at all. I just wouldn’t suggest it to the average reader.
June 27, 2024
Very important information that we all should learn about to save our planet.
April 25, 2024
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC!
"Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice" by Rebecca Kormos is an exploration into the interconnectedness of gender liberation and environmental stewardship. Kormos eloquently argues that true gender liberation cannot be achieved without a simultaneous acknowledgment of the importance of environmental justice. Through a series of interviews, the book presents a rich oral history showcasing the indispensable role women have played in caring for the land throughout history.
Kormos skillfully navigates the complex relationship between climate events and gender-based violence, shedding light on how environmental crises exacerbate existing inequalities. Drawing upon Indigenous knowledge and frameworks, "Intertwined" powerfully illustrates the detrimental impacts of colonialism on both the land and women, highlighting their disproportionate vulnerability to climate-related displacement and harm.
The book is meticulously researched, blending referenced literature with ethnographic interviews to provide a comprehensive analysis of the intersection between feminism and climate justice. However, despite its strengths, I couldn't fully endorse "Intertwined" due to some notable limitations.
One area of concern is the book's political stance, which diverges from my own beliefs and frameworks. While Kormos advocates for transforming existing institutions, I found myself yearning for a more abolitionist perspective. Additionally, the lack of gender-inclusive language and queer representation within the analysis of feminism and climate justice is a notable oversight.
Furthermore, the uncritical portrayal of NGOs and the absence of critique regarding labor hierarchies left me wanting more nuanced discussions. Instead, these entities are sometimes idealized, detracting from the book's overall depth.
In conclusion, "Intertwined" offers valuable insights into the intersection of women, nature, and climate justice, making it a suitable choice for individuals early in their exploration of radical concepts. However, for readers seeking a more comprehensive and critically engaged analysis, this book may fall short. While it illuminates important issues, it leaves many potential intersections and critiques unaddressed.
Overall, "Intertwined" serves as a thought-provoking entry point into the discourse on gender and environmental justice but ultimately leaves room for further exploration and interrogation of its themes.
Content / Trigger Warnings: Violence (moderate), Misogyny (moderate), Physical abuse (minor), Sexual assault (minor), Child abuse (minor), Genocide (minor), Eugenics (minor), Euthanasia (minor), Forced Sterilization (minor), Female Genital Mutilation (minor), Residential schools (minor).
"Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice" by Rebecca Kormos is an exploration into the interconnectedness of gender liberation and environmental stewardship. Kormos eloquently argues that true gender liberation cannot be achieved without a simultaneous acknowledgment of the importance of environmental justice. Through a series of interviews, the book presents a rich oral history showcasing the indispensable role women have played in caring for the land throughout history.
Kormos skillfully navigates the complex relationship between climate events and gender-based violence, shedding light on how environmental crises exacerbate existing inequalities. Drawing upon Indigenous knowledge and frameworks, "Intertwined" powerfully illustrates the detrimental impacts of colonialism on both the land and women, highlighting their disproportionate vulnerability to climate-related displacement and harm.
The book is meticulously researched, blending referenced literature with ethnographic interviews to provide a comprehensive analysis of the intersection between feminism and climate justice. However, despite its strengths, I couldn't fully endorse "Intertwined" due to some notable limitations.
One area of concern is the book's political stance, which diverges from my own beliefs and frameworks. While Kormos advocates for transforming existing institutions, I found myself yearning for a more abolitionist perspective. Additionally, the lack of gender-inclusive language and queer representation within the analysis of feminism and climate justice is a notable oversight.
Furthermore, the uncritical portrayal of NGOs and the absence of critique regarding labor hierarchies left me wanting more nuanced discussions. Instead, these entities are sometimes idealized, detracting from the book's overall depth.
In conclusion, "Intertwined" offers valuable insights into the intersection of women, nature, and climate justice, making it a suitable choice for individuals early in their exploration of radical concepts. However, for readers seeking a more comprehensive and critically engaged analysis, this book may fall short. While it illuminates important issues, it leaves many potential intersections and critiques unaddressed.
Overall, "Intertwined" serves as a thought-provoking entry point into the discourse on gender and environmental justice but ultimately leaves room for further exploration and interrogation of its themes.
Content / Trigger Warnings: Violence (moderate), Misogyny (moderate), Physical abuse (minor), Sexual assault (minor), Child abuse (minor), Genocide (minor), Eugenics (minor), Euthanasia (minor), Forced Sterilization (minor), Female Genital Mutilation (minor), Residential schools (minor).
August 22, 2024
Beginning in her dramatic Introduction, with its convincing observations and conclusions about climate change and revelation of its disproportionate effects on women, African women’s effective life habits that help mitigate its effects, and on through its six Parts, Intertwined cannot be put down until finished. Examples of its convincing primary and secondary research, so much of them accumulated through years of on-the-ground direct experience, are far too numerous to list. One example integrated with Kormos’s emotional reactions to destructive human lack of foresight: while helping with an IUNC task force to “advise development projects on reducing their impact on great apes” she realized that “While the actions of one company might have resulted in” limited damage to chimpanzee populations, “as more companies started to dig, there were fewer and fewer places for chimpanzees to go. I felt a growing sense of panic about the future.” (p. 220).
This beautifully written book is unusually insightful into our present actions and the future of all Earth’s wildlife, and the unique effects of change on women and their outsized positive contributions. Readers, women and men, will find time spent in it inspiring, frightening about where we are going, and will gain great admiration for Rebecca Kormos.
This beautifully written book is unusually insightful into our present actions and the future of all Earth’s wildlife, and the unique effects of change on women and their outsized positive contributions. Readers, women and men, will find time spent in it inspiring, frightening about where we are going, and will gain great admiration for Rebecca Kormos.
August 19, 2024
"Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice" is a book that truly moved me, both in its content and in the personal experience I had attending a panel where some of the incredible women featured in this book spoke. Hearing firsthand from women of the Global South whose stories are woven throughout these pages was a profound reminder of the power of giving voice to those often marginalized in the climate justice conversation.
While some have critiqued this book for not being "radical enough," I can say with confidence, after hearing from the very women it highlights, that this book is making a significant impact. It shines a light on the radical conservation work being done by women leaders in the Global South, doing so in a way that is accessible and engaging for readers who might be new to the topic. This balance is what makes "Intertwined" so powerful—it's not just preaching to the choir but actively inviting more people into the conversation.
I highly recommend "Intertwined" to anyone interested in learning about the intersection of feminism and conservation. This book is a celebration of women's leadership in the fight for climate justice, and it has the potential to inspire and mobilize many more to join in the efforts to protect our planet.
While some have critiqued this book for not being "radical enough," I can say with confidence, after hearing from the very women it highlights, that this book is making a significant impact. It shines a light on the radical conservation work being done by women leaders in the Global South, doing so in a way that is accessible and engaging for readers who might be new to the topic. This balance is what makes "Intertwined" so powerful—it's not just preaching to the choir but actively inviting more people into the conversation.
I highly recommend "Intertwined" to anyone interested in learning about the intersection of feminism and conservation. This book is a celebration of women's leadership in the fight for climate justice, and it has the potential to inspire and mobilize many more to join in the efforts to protect our planet.
August 26, 2024
Intertwined is resourceful book in which Kormos bravely presents her insights. As a young man in the 1980s, I interned at the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya. This was my first exposure to a patriarchal system, where men seemed "carefree and in charge," while many women had multiple responsibilities, such as caring for their children, planting and harvesting crops, tending to cows and goats and processing and selling their produce at markets. In such a system change is difficult as men have the "first and last word."
Therefore, I appreciate how the author highlights the lack of "male energy" among activist working to fight Climate Change at the grassroots level and in leadership roles. Intertwine reveals that women, being more connect with the earth, are at the forefront of the fight to protect our planet's health. The book's call to action is supported by successful examples of causes and resources readers can use to contribute to this vital need.
Therefore, I appreciate how the author highlights the lack of "male energy" among activist working to fight Climate Change at the grassroots level and in leadership roles. Intertwine reveals that women, being more connect with the earth, are at the forefront of the fight to protect our planet's health. The book's call to action is supported by successful examples of causes and resources readers can use to contribute to this vital need.
November 8, 2025
4.5/5
This book is harrowing, inspiring, and angering all at once. Kormos beautifully weaves together multifaceted perspectives, statistics, and stories to highlight the importance of bringing women into the climate justice movement.
While the book is very woman-centered, Kormos approaches it through an intersectional lens, incorporating BIPOC and queer perspectives that deepen and expand the conversation. She underscores a vital truth: all perspectives are necessary if we’re to confront the damage humanity has inflicted on the environment, and, beyond that, to face the climate disasters yet to come.
My only minor complaint is that it can feel a bit repetitive at times. However, each chapter offers new sources and insights to explore. Overall, I’m deeply impressed by this book and feel energized to further engage with intersectional environmental justice work.
This book is harrowing, inspiring, and angering all at once. Kormos beautifully weaves together multifaceted perspectives, statistics, and stories to highlight the importance of bringing women into the climate justice movement.
While the book is very woman-centered, Kormos approaches it through an intersectional lens, incorporating BIPOC and queer perspectives that deepen and expand the conversation. She underscores a vital truth: all perspectives are necessary if we’re to confront the damage humanity has inflicted on the environment, and, beyond that, to face the climate disasters yet to come.
My only minor complaint is that it can feel a bit repetitive at times. However, each chapter offers new sources and insights to explore. Overall, I’m deeply impressed by this book and feel energized to further engage with intersectional environmental justice work.
August 24, 2024
Read it, Read it, Read it.
You will fully understand the connection of women and nature, the connection of women struggles and nature failures. You will find effective ways for healing. You will see, feel, learn about the universality of these issues. An amazingly well researched book. Rebecca saved me the time of reading so many of the books she reference throughout the book. Highly recommend it
You will fully understand the connection of women and nature, the connection of women struggles and nature failures. You will find effective ways for healing. You will see, feel, learn about the universality of these issues. An amazingly well researched book. Rebecca saved me the time of reading so many of the books she reference throughout the book. Highly recommend it
September 16, 2024
Rebecca Kormos has written a thoughtful, inspiring, resource-filled book on the critical role women have played and will play to care for the Earth - an absolute must-have for anyone who wants to learn about and create a healthy future for all life!!!! Absolutely brilliant writing, in-depth research, and storytelling that will make you glad to be alive at the same time as Rebecca and all the people whose stories she shares so selflessly and deeply.
September 9, 2025
Excellent book with subject matter you would at first not see as connected, but which she quickly connects. Ironically, there was a lot of overlap with "For the Love of Men" by Liz Plank, which was still fresh in my mind, and "Sex and World Peace," which I'm currently reading. Bottom line: the patriarchy is killing us all, and it's time to listen to women; our lives depend on it.
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September 21, 2025I loved this book. It presents awesome cases of incredible women working for the defense of environment and climate adaptation taking ownership of their knowledge and experiences. However, some parts of the book left the idea of blaming people because if the global crisis, instead of systems of power and oppression. I would have liked it to be more political.
June 9, 2024
Really enjoyed this book on women and nature. The parts of women being stewards of nature was great.
September 26, 2025
While Rebecca Kormos tried to be inclusive with her book it was still more white orientated than not. More women of colour needed to be involved in this work.
December 17, 2024
Probably one of the best environmental books I've read this year. If climate change is a hyperobject, so is gender inequity - so thoroughly worked into our language and perspectives so as to be rendered invisible. When we say that climate change will impact 'the vulnerable' most drastically, who all are we talking about? When an NGO works with a 'local community' in a conservation effort, who's at the table - and who's leading the effort? This book doesn't only reveal the disparity but clearly portrays why this matters - to communities, to conservation efforts, to all of us. This book flits between scientific analyses, lived experience, and just a shade of poetry (each chapter is analogized to a part of a tree). Intertwined will be close at hand and in thought for a long while to come.
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