A manifesto and memoir about climate justice and how we can--and
must--build a livable future for all, inclusive to all, by a rising
star of the global climate movement
Leading
climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate brings her fierce, fearless
spirit, new perspective, and superstar bona fides to the biggest
issue of our time. In A Bigger Picture, her first book, she
shares her story as a young Ugandan woman who sees that her community
bears disproportionate consequences to the climate crisis. At the
same time, she sees that activists from African nations and the
global south are not being heard in the same way as activists from
white nations are heard. Inspired by Sweden's Greta Thunberg, in 2019
Nakate became Uganda's first Fridays for Future protestor, awakening
to her personal power and summoning within herself a commanding
political voice.
Nakate's
mere presence has revealed rampant inequalities within the climate
justice movement. In January 2020, while attending the World Economic
Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as one of five international delegates,
including Thunberg, Nakate's image was cropped out of a photo by the
Associated Press. The photo featured the four other activists, who
were all white. It highlighted the call Nakate has been making all
along: for both environmental and social justice on behalf of those
who have been omitted from the climate discussion and who are now
demanding to be heard.
From
a shy little girl in Kampala to a leader on the world stage, A
Bigger Picture is part rousing manifesto and part poignant
memoir, and it presents a new vision for the climate movement based
on resilience, sustainability, and genuine equity.