Summary of Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wikinson's All We Can Save

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was born and raised in a small town called San Pedro Tultepec, outside Toluca, a city in the basin that neighbors Mexico City. Between 2011 and 2013, my town experienced the worst drought in Mexico in seventy years. In 2015, we were hit by heavy rainfall that resulted in flooding.
#2 As a descendant of the Otomi-Toltec people, I understand that the Earth takes care of me because my ancestors have always taken care of the Earth. I believe that all communities should embody the morality and wisdom needed to adapt to a post–fossil fuel era.
#3 The climate-strike movement is led by youth, but it is also led by youth of all races and ethnicities. The Western media created a narrative that the youth movement started in Europe with Greta Thunberg, but youth of color are also at the forefront of the movement.
#4 The climate crisis is a survival issue for everyone, but the ability to respond to climate disasters is not. Wildfires in California, for instance, are not avoiding fancy homes. Snowstorms, hailstorms, and tornadoes are not discriminating either.

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 21 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669356875
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

I was born and raised in a small town called San Pedro Tultepec, outside Toluca, a city in the basin that neighbors Mexico City. Between 2011 and 2013, my town experienced the worst drought in Mexico in seventy years. In 2015, we were hit by heavy rainfall that resulted in flooding.

#2

As a descendant of the Otomi-Toltec people, I understand that the Earth takes care of me because my ancestors have always taken care of the Earth. I believe that all communities should embody the morality and wisdom needed to adapt to a post–fossil fuel era.

#3

The climate-strike movement is led by youth, but it is also led by youth of all races and ethnicities. The Western media created a narrative that the youth movement started in Europe with Greta Thunberg, but youth of color are also at the forefront of the movement.

#4

The climate crisis is a survival issue for everyone, but the ability to respond to climate disasters is not. Wildfires in California, for instance, are not avoiding fancy homes. Snowstorms, hailstorms, and tornadoes are not discriminating either.

#5

The idea that trees need to be released from the struggle of competition was the result of a debate between Frederic Clements and his contemporary Henry Gleason. Clements saw communities of plants that were cooperating with one another, while Gleason saw simply random individuals dispersed by chance.

#6

For the first half of the twentieth century, Clements’s view prevailed, and the scientific literature was full of studies on facilitation. But in the 1950s, a small group of researchers resurrected Gleason’s individualist views and pitted them against Clements’s holism.

#7

Plants are constantly working together to survive in harsh environments. In fact, the more stressful the environment, the more likely you are to see plants working together to ensure mutual survival.

#8

The connected nature of mutualists has vast implications for forestry, conservation, and agriculture in a warming world. If we are to help reverse global warming, we will need to step into the flow of the carbon cycle in new ways.

#9

I try to look at the big picture. The sun, ardent tongue lapping us like a mother besotted with her new cub, will wear itself out. Everything is transitory. We must remember that the world is full of insignificant creatures that we love.

#10

Racist ideologies are not only responsible for the exploitation of Indigenous peoples, but they are also responsible for the creation of a racially exclusive framework that has bolstered colonial scholarship and relegated Indigenous knowledge to obscurity.

#11

Indigenous knowledge is based on millennia-long study of the relationships that exist among all systems within creation. It encompasses a broad range of scientific disciplines, such as ethnobotany, climatology, ecology, biology, archaeology, psychology, sociology, and religion.

#12

Indigenous kinship systems, with their inclusion of beings from the natural world, have been viewed as little more than magical thinking by mainstream science. However, in 2015, scientists published the first draft of the Open Tree of Life Project, which shows the living connection among 2. 3 million species.

#13

Indigenous peoples, who only make up 5 percent of the global population, possess approximately 80 percent of the world’s biodiversity and 40 to 50 percent of the remaining protected places in the world.

#14

We must shift the central point of our awareness. The anthropocentric beliefs and philosophies that have ruled mainstream ideologies for generations are incapable of accommodating the holistic view needed to escape our current predicament.

#15

The stories of Sky Woman and the animals that helped her create Turtle Island teach us that human life has been supported by the elements of the natural world. They remind us that these beings have been present before us, making them our elders.

#16

The colonialist suppression of diverse voices has led to a homogenized society, which in turn has led to a stifled creative intelligence.

#17

Indigenous kinship systems provide models of reciprocal care. We care for Mother Earth and she cares for us. The only way life on Earth will remain viable into the future is if we learn how to balance our needs with the needs of the rest of life.

#18

The Anishinaabe prophecy of the seven fires provides clear guidance for non-Indigenous peoples during this crucial time. It highlights seven periods of time linked to Indigenous peoples’ contact with the light-skinned people from across the water. It offers advice and warnings for each of these time periods.

#19

The Indigenous way of life is a pathway that can lead humankind back toward life. It provides a way of being that is in harmony and balance with the rest of creation. It reconnects humankind to the sources of its survival and the heart of its humanity.

#20

The Amazon rainforest is dying because of the demand for fossil fuels, which is heating up the planet. The trees do not need to open their pores as much to take in the gases they need because of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

#21

The cause of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia is unknown, but it is believed to have been the most destructive explosion in human history. It killed over 10,000 people, and its effects were injected into the upper atmosphere, where they traveled to distant skies.

#22

Everything is connected and complicated, and we live in a world where the climate is always changing. The changes that have occurred before are different from the changes we are now effecting, but they tell us things.

#23

The living Earth is a sum of delicate balances that cannot be changed. The jets are trying to preserve these balances by distributing stratospheric sunscreen, but whether this is a mistake or not, it will lead to starvation or war or collapse.

#24

emergence is the process by which complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. It is evident in birds that don’t make a plan to migrate, but follow a call in their bodies that they must go.

#25

The children speak for themselves, and they are not happy with how adults have handled the climate change situation. They understand what is happening, and they are striking out against it.

#26

Something deep is shifting, and with a speed that surprises me. As I write these words, it is not only our planet that is on fire, but also social movements rising up to declare a people’s emergency.

#27

The activism we are seeing today builds on this history and changes the equation completely. It is no longer enough to just engage with self-identified environmentalists and climate activists; it is now necessary to reach beyond them and engage with everyone.

#28

The Green New Deal is not just about climate change, but about economic and social justice as well.