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Climate Justice
Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future | Mary Robinson
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An urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward. Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his fiftieth birthday, he would share the planet with more than nine billion people--people battling for food, water, and shelter in an increasingly volatile climate. The faceless, shadowy menace of climate change had become, in an instant, deeply personal. Mary Robinson's mission would lead her all over the world, from Malawi to Mongolia, and to a heartening revelation: that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level, mainly among women, many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself. From Sharon Hanshaw, the Mississippi matriarch whose campaign began in her East Biloxi hair salon and culminated in her speaking at the United Nations, to Constance Okollet, a small farmer who transformed the fortunes of her ailing community in rural Uganda, Robinson met with ordinary people whose resilience and ingenuity had already unlocked extraordinary change. Powerful and deeply humane, Climate Justice is a stirring manifesto on one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time, and a lucid, affirmative, and well-argued case for hope. As advocate for the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world. -Barack Obama
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KadaGul

CH#️⃣8️⃣: “That is what 1 Million Women is all about. That we are not perfect. This movement is not meant to make you feel guilty. It is meant to make you feel inspired that we are all doing this together, that we‘re just all trying to do our best. You can‘t just go into total despair over the effects of climate change.You‘ve just got to start and do one thing, and that leads to another, and before you know it, you are just living like that.”

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KadaGul

This resonated with me “Constance, I learned that overpollution from developed countries had caused real changes to the climate,””I felt bad b/c I knew that the people in developed countries are our friends. We are the same people;have the same blood. Bt these people were enjoying their life while we were suffering.I wanted to knw why they were doing this to us.I wanted to knw whether the people in developed countries could reduce their emissions”

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Meaw_catlady 💕💕💕 4y
Clwojick 💗💓💖💓💗 4y
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jenniferw88
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4 1/2 ⭐

This book ticks off a lot of challenges!
#LetterR for #litsyatoz @BookishMarginalia
#feminism for my #jennyis30 bingo card
♉ prompt #Earth & ♉ prompt #pink for #readyoursign @Meaw_catlady @Clwojick

TrishB I enjoyed this one too 👍🏻 4y
Clwojick 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Way to go! 4y
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#weeklyforecast @Cinfhen

Finish tagged book & continue the other two.

Cinfhen 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 4y
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meghna.sh
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An important read to inform and inspire change.

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Gillyreads
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Pretty sure racism was the heart of that campaign ?

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TrishB
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Inspiring set of essays with a lot of information from around the world. We have renamed feminist corner, social justice corner as we have anti-racism, anti- homophobic and climate justice books!! Ready to take on the world.....hopefully!!
Thanks Cindy 😘

Emilymdxn I need to get this book it looks brilliant! 5y
Cinfhen Wow!! That was fast!!! You go, Girl 😘😘 (edited) 5y
TrishB @Emilymdxn it‘s a good little read 👍🏻 5y
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TrishB @Cinfhen it was a good quick read 😁 5y
Reggie How funny, this girl at work was telling me about eco-feminism, and here is your review!!! 5y
TrishB @Reggie cool 👍🏻 5y
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Today‘s #bookmail falls under the category of “legitimate research”, so I‘ll be able to write it off on my taxes when I earn gobs of money for all of my as-yet-unpublished writing.

Justifiable, right? 🤔

LeahBergen Perfectly. 😄 5y
readordierachel Absolutely 👍🏼 5y
TrishB Certainly 😁 5y
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Cathythoughts Sounds good 👍🏻♥️ 5y
JanuarieTimewalker13 I‘m not a tax attorney, but in my world you would be legit😀 5y
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MEGR
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This short book gives so much information on community leaders from all around the globe who are committed to protecting the environment and those most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Excellent introduction to the local and political efforts that can help lower emissions and pollution. 📸: osprey (a.k.a. river hawk) that a friend and I spotted while walking along the L.A. river yesterday! 👁🦅

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MEGR
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Hopeful 🌎🌍🌏

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