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The Story is in Our Bones

How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis

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It's time to rewild ourselves and our dominant worldviews to build Earth-centered communities for all

These pages summon from our bones our commitment to defend this living Earth.
—Joanna Macy, author, Coming Back to Life and Active Hope

The dominant cultural worldview is based upon extraction and exploitation practices that have brought us to the precipice of social, environmental, and climate collapse. Braiding poetic storytelling, climate justice analyses, and collective knowledge of Earth-centered cultures, The Story is in Our Bones opens a portal to restoration and justice beyond the end of a world in crisis.

Author, activist, and changemaker Osprey Orielle Lake weaves together ecological, mythical, political, and cultural understandings and shares her experiences working with global leaders, climate justice activists, Indigenous Peoples, and systems-thinkers. She seeks to summon a new way of being and thinking in the Anthropocene, which includes transforming the interlocking crises of colonialism, racism, patriarchy, capitalism, and ecocide, to build thriving Earth communities for all.

For anyone grieving our collective loss and wanting to take action, The Story is in Our Bones is a vital guide to remaking our world. This hopeful, engaging, and creatively lyrical work reminds readers that another world is possible, and provides a desperately needed antidote to the pervasive despair of our time.

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    • Library Journal

      December 1, 2023

      Lake (Uprisings for the Earth) is the founder of Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), an organization whose mission is to protect and defend the planet, particularly through the work of women who have typically been unheard and undervalued by policymakers. Her book is a manifesto of sorts. It begins with Lake's argument that the dominant mainstream (largely Western) culture, with its emphasis on economic extraction and patriarchy, has led to the current climate crisis. It then makes a broad, inclusive survey of the worldviews of multiple Indigenous cultures that emphasize working with nature to create a sustainable way of life. Lake promotes the rights of women and Indigenous peoples and makes a case for the creation of a new legal framework for the rights of nature. Her book includes a broad survey of current environmental activist movements. VERDICT Lake casts a wide net that embraces global Indigenous perspectives and modern science to discuss topics such as humanity's origin, society's relationship to nature, and the imperative need to halt and reverse climate change. Highly recommended for public and academic libraries.--Marjorie Mann

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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