Intertwined Women, nature, and climate justice

Wildlife biologist and primatologist Kormos, a National Geographic Explorer and filmmaker, writes from a specific, gender-based perspective. She declares her thesis early on; to succeed, efforts to protect the environment require the advancement of women's rights so that women are empowered to fill worldwide leadership positions to reduce or even stop the devastating impacts of climate change. She sets out to prove these arguments by referencing an enormous amount of published research that supports her conclusions that women have the necessary and unappreciated abilities to lead on global warming, while social injustices committed against women result in greater damage from environmental disasters. There is a great deal to parse in the narrative, and Kormos often runs through dozens of issues in a paragraph, namedropping studies that refer to disasters around the world as she loops them into her conclusion that women suffer most from their impact. The result is an introductory analysis of a big, complicated topic that will likely succeed most in compelling readers to research more on their own.