How to parent in a climate emergency? Through a series of inspiring letters written to his daughters, climate activist and writer Ben Rawlence finds new ways to open conversations and navigate the uncertainty of our changing times together Writer and activist Ben Rawlence first began writing to his eldest daughter before she was born, expressing his fears at what it would mean to raise children in a rapidly changing world where the very concept of the future was in jeopardy. Twelve years later, dozens of these letters to his two daughters tell the story of one father''s attempt to navigate the fundamental contradiction of raising children within an economic system that seems hostile to all life, and not only humans. Climate change poses a fundamental challenge to parenting. What knowledge should we pass on? What future are we preparing our children for? Generations risk being divided by an elephant in the room that neither side wants to name: the climate. By turns dark, hilarious and always bracingly honest, the letters to his daughters offer relatable and inspiring insights about parenting in perilous times. Ultimately Rawlence (and his daughters) show us that learning to see once again through the eyes of a child might hold the answer to how we parent, how we live and even the future of our planet.

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Ben Rawlence is the award-winning author of Radio Congo, City of Thorns, The Treeline and Think Like a Forest. His writing has been translated into a dozen languages*. The Treeline* won the 2023 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism and the 2022 Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications, among others. He is the co-founder and director of the pioneering educational institution Black Mountains College in Wales.

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'Beautiful and thought-provoking' Cal Flyn

**How do we raise children in a climate emergency?

What should we teach them - and what kind of future are we preparing them for?**

Ben Rawlence began writing to his eldest daughter before she was born, trying to understand what it means to bring a child into a world facing ecological breakdown. Over the next twelve years, these letters - written to his two daughters as they grow - chart one father's attempt to live with the central contradiction of our age: raising children within a system that threatens all life, including our own.

By turns moving and funny, and always bracingly honest, Think Like a Forest explores love, fear and responsibility in perilous times. Rawlence finds the answers might lie in learning to see the world again through the eyes of a child so that we may embrace interdependence and regain our place in nature. To think like a forest, he shows us, may be the key to how we parent, how we live, and even whether we have a future on our planet at all.

'A gift, not just for the author's daughters, but for all of us who want to replace ecocide anxiety with the glimmerings of a better future' Sophy Roberts

'A thoughtful, tender way to make a map of new and frightening territory' Jay Griffiths