Our new topic comes from Emma Watson from her work in Glasgow at the United Nation's Climate Change Conference; COP 26. The UN filled the event with topics on Adaptation and Resiliency, Capacity Building, Education and Youth, as well as Gender. Gender has long been intertwined with these issues – from women gathering firewood to the Chipko Andolan Tree Huggers protest – so women must be part of any climate change solutions. Input from women, however, has either been excluded or greatly minimized in the decision making process.
To further explore this topic of ecofeminism and eco-activism Emma suggests a few books through the COPBookFairies.
OSS will be reading the following two books in November – December 2021:
How Women Can Save The Planet by Anne Karpf (US | UK)
How Women Can Save The Planet, which explores how women are suffering the most from the climate crisis and yet who have done the least to cause it. Karpf argues we need gender equality. The highest-profile climate activists today are women and girls (see our second book) but it’s a very different story at the top table where the future of the planet is being decided primarily by men.
A Bigger Picture My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis by Vanessa Nakate (US | UK)
A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis. This is Nakate’s manifesto and memoir about climate justice and how we can—and must—build a livable, inclusive future for all. Nakate has been a vocal advocate about the inequalities within the climate justice movement for a long time. Most notably when in January 2020 her image was cropped out of a photo by the Associated Press leaving only white activists. We cannot move forward by excluding people from the discussion.
We hope these books help motivate and inspire you and your eco-activism efforts.
Happy reading!
- OSS Mods