Autorentext

Natalie Bennett has been the editor of the Guardian Weekly newspaper, a volunteer with the Thai National Commission on Women's Affairs. Member of the UK House of Lords, which she entered in 2019.

Klappentext

Green Thinking seeks to "compost" the views of dead white men (Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Norman Borlaugh) and of some not white or dead (Francis Fukuyama, Richard Dawkins, Richard Thaler), and to explore the flowering of Green thinking in the 21st century, growing from the nutrients that microbes and their kin are generating from the wreckage.

This book understands the foundation of life is cooperation, not competition; that diversity is essential to resilience and health of systems; that humans are just one more species of animal or rather holobiont; that reductionism has to be replaced by relational thinking; that financialising society has destroyed - as it was meant to do - relationships essential to wellbeing; and, perhaps most crucially at all, that we have to draw on the knowledge and wisdom of indigenous societies that have maintained themselves and their environments in healthy balance for thousands or tens of thousands of years. That means acknowledging the time, energy and talents of all life, human and non-human, must contribute to a new way for humans to live in balance with the more-than-human world.

This book will appeal to fans of David Graeber, Kate Raworth, Tyson Yunkaporta, Jason Hickel, Anna Tsing, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Ursula Le Guin, Bruno Latour, Wangarii Maathai, Merlin Sheldrake, Vandana Shiva, Lynn Margulis, Kim Stanley Robinson, as well as listeners to the New Books Network, Past Present and Future, and HPS podcasts.

Inhalt

Part 1: Human and Other Ecologies

1. What Makes You a Human?
2. Human Nature, or Surviving the Sabre Tooths
3. Humans are not Unique - We're Human Animals
   Part 2: Societies
4. The Myth of Progress - No Magic Route to Today
5. Needs and Wants - Beyond Survival, Respect
6. Diversity - The Dangerous Narrowing
   Part 3: Innovations
7. Big Data is Not Artificial Intelligence: No Body, No Brain
8. Politics: Consciously Building Change
9. Art - Source of Ideas and Change
   Part 4: Livelihoods
10. Work
11. Money
12. Community
    Part 5: Go Green
13. Growing a Rich Ecosystem of Thought