[I'm not trying to encourage the DMT-Nexus to align with or join any political activity regarding www.allwecansave.earth. I just wanted at the heart to share some of the amazing content of this book so that those interested in sustainability and climate science have something that they can look into and I'm treating it as a reference for those that are interested in sustainability which is a major framework for the DMT-Nexus. I want to share excerpts that may relate to some of our experiences and perspectives. I don't want it to be confused that I am trying to recruit anyone. I thoroughly like that this book has a wide range of perspectives all wrapped into one book and I really appreciate the collaborative effort. I'm not going to plagiarize the whole thing and I recommend reading it or listening to an audiobook if climate change and ecology is one of your interests. Its worth discussing and that's what my intentions are. You can simply watch podcasts, town halls, and other videos from youtube and can visit www.allwecansave.earth/references for more information. I will gradually work on this thread via editing to have several excerpts and some of the TEDtalks, podcasts, and group discussions associated with the collaboration]

All we can save is a book about the voice of women and women of color in the discussion of climate science and the climate crisis. https://www.youtube.com/...h?v=3vUdrlkf1ro&t=6s this video explains it well enough. Typically, the narrative is white, and male dominated. The major takeaway from reading this book is to take into account everyone's voice.

Essayists: Emily Atkin, Xiye Bastida, Colette Pichon Battle, Jainey K. Bavishi, Jinine Benyus, adrienne maree brown, Règine Clèment, Abigail Dillen, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Katharine Hayhoe, Mary Annaïse Heglar, Mary Anne Hitt, Tara Houska -- Zhaabowekwe, Emily N. Johnston, Naomi Klein, Kate Knuth, Kate Marvel, Gina McCarthy, Sarah Miller, Sherri Mitchell--Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset, Susanne C. Moser, Kate Orff, Jacqui Patterson, Leah Penniman, Kendra Pierre-Louis, Varshini Prakash, Janisse Ray, Christine E. Nieves Rodriguez, Favianna Rodriguez, Cameron Russell, Ash Sanders, Judith D. Schwartz, Emily Stengel, Sarah Stillman, Leah Cardamore Stokes, Amanda Sturgeon, Maggie Thomas, Heather McTeer Toney, Alexandria Villaseñor, Amy Westervelt, Jane Zelikova.

Poets Ellen Bass, Camille T. Dungy, Joy Harjo, Jane Hirshfield, Ailish Hopper, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Ada Limón, Louise Maher-Johnson, Anne Haven McDonnell, Lynna Odel, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Naima Penniman, Catherine Pierce, Marge Piercy, Patricia Smith, Alice Walker.

Illustrator: Madeleine Jubilee Saito.

"Begin" Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
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Eunice Newton Foote rarely gets the credit she's due. In 1856 Foote theorized that changes in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could affect the Earth's temperature. She was the first woman in climate science, but history overlooked her until just a few years ago.
Foote arrived at her breakthrough idea through experimentation. with an air pump, two glass cylinders, and four thermometers, she tested the impact of "carbonic acid gas" (the term for carbon dioxide in her day) against "common air." When placed in the sun, she found the cylinder with carbon dioxide trapped more heat and stayed hot longer.

From a simple experiment, she drew a profound conclusion: "An atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temperature; and if some suppose at one period of its history the air had mixed with it a larger proportion than at present, an increased temperature... must have necessarily resulted." In other words, she connected the dots between carbon dioxide and planetary warming, and she did it more than 160 years ago.

Foote's paper, "Circumstances Affecting the Heat of Sun's Rays," was presented in August 1856 at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and then published. For unknown reasons it was read aloud by Joseph Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian, rather than by Foote herself. That was three years before Irish physicist John Tyndall published his own more detailed work on heat-trapping gases -- work typically credited as the foundation of climate science.

Did Tyndall know about Foote's research? It's unclear -- though he did have a paper on color blindness in the same 1856 issue of The American Journal of Science and Arts as hers. In any case, we have to wonder if Eunice Newton Foote ever found herself remarking, as so many women have: "I literally just said that, dude."

Foote wasn't only a scientist. She was involved in the early movement for women's rights too. Her name appears on the list of signatories to the 1848 Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments" -- a manifesto created during the first women's rights convention in the United States -- Right below suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Foote's husband, Elisha, and abolitionist-philosopher Frederick Douglass also signed on, under "gentlemen." (Of note: John Tyndall opposed women's suffrage.) Foote, it seems, was a climate feminist.

The same patriarchal power structure that oppresses and exploits girls, women, and nonbinary people (and constricts and contorts boys and men) also wreaks destruction on the natural world. Dominance, supremacy, violence, extraction, egotism, greed, ruthless competition -- these hallmarks of patriarchy fuel the climate crisis just as surely as they do inequality, colluding with racism along the way. Patriarchy silences, breeds contempt, fuels destructive capitalism, and plays a zero-sum game. Its harms are chronic, cumulative, and fundamentally planetary.

And these structures are being actively upended. The People's Climate March and the Women's March. School strikes for climate and the #MeToo movement. Rebellions against extinction and declarations that Time's up. More than concurrent, these phenomena are connected by the systems they seek to transform and the values that guide them.

The climate crisis is not gender neutral. Climate change is a powerful "threat multiplier," making existing vulnerabilities and injustices worse. Especially under conditions of poverty, women and girls face great risk of displacement or death from extreme weather disasters. Early marriage and sex work -- sometimes last-resort survival strategies -- have been tied to droughts and floods. There is growing proof of the link between climate change and gender-based violence, including sexual assault, domestic abuse, and forced prostitution. Tasks core to survival, such as collecting water and wood or growing food, fall on female shoulders in many cultures. These are already challenging and time-consuming activities; climate change can deepen the burden, and with it struggles for health, education, and financial security.

The list of harmful impacts caused by our rapidly changing climate goes long and it goes wide, especially for girls and women of color, those in the Global South, and those who are rural or Indigenous. In very real ways, the climate crisis thwarts the rights and opportunities of women and girls, as well as nonbinary people These realities make gender-responsive strategies for climate resilience and adaptation critical. And they mean that bold climate action is critical to our aspirations for gender equality and justice.

However, the story does not, and must not, end with the label "victim." when you're close to the problem, you're necessarily close to the solutions.

All around the world, women and girls are making enormous contributions to climate action: conducting research, cultivating solutions, creating campaign strategy, curating art exhibitions, crafting policy, composing literary works, charging forth in collective action, and more. Look around and you will see on the rise climate leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration. There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement, and it has a few important characteristics.
First, there is a clear focus on making change rather than being in charge. We see women and girls moving beyond ego, competition, and control, which are rampant in the climate space (as elsewhere) and impeded good work. We see joyful following where wise leadership appears, joining instead of duplicating, giving one another credit, sharing resources, passing the mic, and celebrating one another's successes. It is shine theory in practice.

Second, there is a commitment to responding to the climate crisis in ways that heal systemic injustices rather than deepen them. We see women and girls centering justice, inclusion, and frontline communities, recognizing that we can address near-term needs and long-term aims at the same time, and more effectively. Equity is not secondary to survival, as some suggest; it is survival.

Third, there is an appreciation for heart-centered, not just head-centered, leadership. We see women and girls bringing their whole selves to this movement -- fear, grief, fiery courage, wracking uncertainty, all of it -- and doing the inner work that often precedes effecting change. The climate crisis has inescapable psychological and spiritual dimensions. What's so powerful about integrating head and heart: It's where scientific rigor and moral clarity, analysis and empathy, strategy and imagination meet. It is what allows us to sustain bold aspirations and insist upon the action that's necessary rather than what's expedient or practical."
Fourth, and perhaps most important, there is a recognition that building community is a requisite foundation for building a better world. We see women and girls engaging in deeply relational, collaborative, and supportive ways -- taking the necessary time, making the necessary space, investing in the weft and weave between us. It is clear that we are in this together, that our fates are intertwined. And in many ways, success requires building the largest, strongest tea possible.

While women and girls are undeniably vital voices and agents of change for this planet, we are too often missing or even barred from the proverbial table. Women remain underrepresented in government, business, engineering, and finance; in executive leadership of environmental organizations, United Nations climate negotiations, and media coverage of the crisis; and in the legal systems that create and uphold change. Girls and women leading on climate receive insufficient financial backing and too little credit Again, unsurprisingly, this marginalization is especially true for women of the Global South, rural women, Indigenous women, and women of color. The dominant public voices and empowered "deciders" on the climate crisis continue to be white men.

More than a problem of bias, suppressing the climate leadership and participation of women and girls-- half the world's brainpower and change-making might -- sets us up for failure. Research shows that women have an edge over men when it comes to the planet: caring about the environment and climate change and acting on that care; aversion to taking on outsized risk or imposing it on others (something date indicates white men are particularly inclined to do). This edge carries into politics and policy making. Female Legislators more strongly support environmental laws -- and stricter laws at that. When parliaments have greater representation of women, they are more likely to ratify environmental treaties. When women participate equally with men, climate policy interventions are more effective. At a national level, higher political and social status for women correlates with lower carbon emissions and greater creation of protected land areas. It's not about only women but about making sure women are included and leading at all levels.

To address our climate emergency, we must rapidly, radically reshape society. We need every solution and every solver. As the saying goes, to change everything, we need everyone. What this moment calls for is a mosaic of voices -- the full spectrum of ideas and insights for how we can turn things around.

The climate crisis is a leadership crisis. For far too long, far too many leaders have been focused on profit, power, and prestige; and many of those committed to change have been ineffective. The climate crisis is the result of social, political, and economic systems that are wildly skewed to benefit those who already have so much. It is the result of unfettered economic growth, extractive capitalism, and the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few, who have known plenty but cared too little and continue to block efforts for change. Humanity simply cannot survive the status quo, and neither can many other species and ecosystems.

To transform society this decade -- the clear task science has set before us -- we need transformational leadership. We need feminine and feminist climate leadership, which is wide open to people of any gender. This is where possibility lives -- possibility that we can turn away from the brink and move toaward a life-giving future for all.

What might Eunice Newton Foote have achieved if she had John Tyndall's access to training and resources, the same platform and power? we can only imagine. And while we cannot rewrite that chapter, we can hear, heed, and support climate feminists today. This book imparts the minds and hearts of women leading the way on climate and using their diverse gifts to, as Adrienne Rich writes, "reconstitute the world." they are a small subset of a might community showing up in this moment, gathering the pieces of a broken world, doing the work of mending.

The climate crisis is inescapably international, but this collection intentionally focuses on the United States as the country most responsible for causing it and with so very much work to do. For too long Americans have tended to compartmentalize climate change as something that affects (poor, Black, and Brown) people far away, something that is too bad but not our problem. Well, that bubble has burst: hurricanes in the Gulf and Caribbean and along the Eastern Seaboard; fires on the West Coast; floods in the Midwest; droughts here, deluges there, and heat waves everywhere; diseases spreading; insects and songbirds disappearing; sea level ever rising; erratic weather making it harder to grow food. Our visionaries, many of them women and people of color, have been not only warning us but illuminating paths forward.

This book initially had a dual aim: to shine a light back on them, uplifting the expertise and voices of dozens of diverse women leading on climate in the United States -- Scientists, journalists, farmers, lawyers, teachers, activists, innovators, wonks, and designers, across generations, geographies, and races -- and to advance a more representative, nuanced, solution-oriented public conversation on the climate crisis. As we put it together, intermixing essays with poetry and art, as all these voices became a chorus, this book also became a balm and a guide for the immense emotional complexity of knowing and holding what has been done to the world, while bolstering our resolve never to give up on one another or our collective future.

The writings in this collection are united by their willingness to grapple with big questions: How did we get into this mess? What is at stake? How can we make sense of this crisis, psychologically and spiritually? What solutions exist from individual to national levels? How can we ensure justice is embedded in transformation? What civic and cultural shifts can help turn things around? What do we need to do? Whom do we need to become? What might possible futures look like? How can we reach them together? The necessary exploration, ideas, and solutions, of course, go beyond what these pages could contain. The answers shared here are expansive but not exhaustive.
The book unfurls in eight parts, their essences captured here in light brushstrokes.

Root A call, a welcoming, a place to ground- The foundation of Indigenous wisdom - And the wisdom of Earth's living systems - Interconnection, emergence, justice, regeneration

Advocate Strategy, participation, public good - Plying tools of legislation and litigation - How we hold the powerful to account - And (re)write the rules with all people in mind

Reframe Language and story, creativity and culture - Of cities, transport, infrastructure, capitalism - Coastlines and landscapes where human-nature meet - Much to reconsider, rend, invert, remake

Persist Damn if this work isn't hard, our task towering - The fire of activism--on the front lines, in the belly - Standing for justice, for health, for the sacred - We don't have to do this alone

Feel Awake, aware, attuned - Hearts break, souls shake with anxiety - Can't skip this: struggling, mourning, raging, healing - A ferocious love for the planet we call home

Nourish Soil, food, water, sky--inseparable - The foundation of our aliveness - Collaborating with and supporting nature - Microbes, farmers, photosynthesis

Rise Generations--growing, giving, gathering - Nurture community and transformation - For a future that holds us, all of us - This is the work of our lifetimes

This book is about a spectrum of work that needs doing and collective effort to make our best contributions; it's not about heroes. So whether you are a veteran of the climate movement, a keen onlooker from the sidelines, or someone joining this conversation for the first time, we hope you will find yourself in these pages. We have peeled away jargon, included foundational information, and created simplicity without forfeiting complexity, because this book is for everyone concerned about our shared future. For everyone seeking fresh perspectives and bold ideas. For those who value diverse voices on the pressing issues of our day. For those already involved and those still discovering what role they might play.

This book refuses to dodge how bad things are, yet keeps a forward gaze. Because movements don't alter history by saying: What if we don't succeed? ... Some things will never change. ... The odds seem really long. ... Maybe we'll never et the right to vote, to marry to be free. ... Without knowing the outcome, we have to try anyway; without a single guarantee, we must show up. So we focus on how to understand where we are and where we go from here. As the subtitle lifts up, we must summon truth, courage, and solutions. This trifecta can move us forward, through the aching uncertainty.

In the words of adrienne maree brown, "What we pay attention to grows, so I'm thinking about how we grow what we are all imagining and creating into something large enough and solid enough that it becomes a tipping point." And what we want to tip toward is community, care, repair, and renewal. We want to tip toward life. While it is too late to save everything -- some ecological damage is irreparable, some species are already gone, ice has already melted, lives have already been lost -- it is far too soon to give up on the rest. So let these women, these visionaries, lead you on a path toward all we can save.

[note: I'm not going to quote a whole bunch of excerpts, but this is what I'm sharing at the present time. I don't want this to be a huge wall of text but hey-- I really think that some people will appreciate some of this. I'll probably narrow it down to three or four of the given essays, some video's, and maybe related documentaries generally on climate change, pollution, and climate science -- the impact that we have on our planet is very important to me and my integration of what I have experienced during my brief time with Ayahuasca, DMT, and psilocybin. I don't really use these substances as often because they have had the impact that I needed and I really prefer to take more time to do things like this where I explore literature and conceptualizing the world I'm alive for.

I will try to work on adding to this later today and will try to add the finishing touches in a few weeks so that the thread is complete. I'm also thinking about working on it through a word document which probably would have been smart from the beginning )