Intertwined: Woman, Nature, and Climate Justice

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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 Kormoss 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 planet: 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 womens 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 womens leadership at all levels of climate justice.

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Rebecca Kormos is a primatologist, wildlife biologist, conservationist, filmmaker, writer, National Geographic Explorer, and co-founder of the Women in Nature Network. Intertwined: Woman, Nature, and Climate Justice is her first book. She lives in Berkeley, California.