"Bennett's bold and compelling thinking shows how traditional philosophy has all too oftenmisunderstood the truth about human nature. It is co-operation and collaboration that haveensured our survival as a species. The existential crises that we face require the bold and innovate thinking laid out in this book. It's avital read for anyone who wants to understand how to achieve meaningful change at a time thatour world urgently needs it." Jennifer Nadel, Writer and award winning journalist "Learning is diffi cult but un-learning can be both painful and transformational. Natalie challenges us to unlearn our thinking about science, economics and politics in our modern world, cutthe ties and set it free. She dares us to be brave, become critical thinkers and stop clinging to the rhetoric of the past like a comfortblanket. This is the book of the year that I didn't know I needed to read.
" Professor Sue Black, Lady Black of Strome "This is the book our times are calling for as we hospice a system that has never been fit forpurpose --if that purpose is the continuation of complex life on earth -- and explore all theextraordinary, generative mycelial networks that can and will lift us to a new system wherehumanity flourishes as an integral part of the web of life, where we know ourselves to be interconnected, inter-beings. Written with Natalie Bennett's trade-mark clarity of purpose, accessible and life-changing, this is a festival of ideas that will carry us forward. Essential readingfor anyone who wants humanity to thrive." Manda Scott, Author and Accidental Godspodcaster "Natalie Bennett blends broad, thorough knowledge with realistic, effective action in this journey of unlearning, to help us co-create a future worth living. Essential reading for emerging educators and leaders." Gill Coombs "We stand before the unmaking of the world in the service of rapacious Social Darwinism, habituating us tospectacular violence and roared on by a media chamber of hyenas. But breakdown can lead to breakthrough: thecoming community forged in mutual aid and respect for earth others beckons irresistibly. Hope must becomeexpectation.
Natalie Bennett's constellational survey blazes a trail." Michael Hrebeniak , Founder & Convenor of the New School of the Anthropocene (London) Natalie's book reminds me of Keynes's pithy dictum that 'Practical men, who believe themselves tobe quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist'.Out-dated economics, like much out-dated thought and ideology, is holding us back fromharnessing the creative potential of the human spirit and building a world where we, and allcreatures, can flourish. I applaud Natalie's dissident spirit and her determination to uphold thevaluable insights of radical and indigenous thinking that has so much to teach us." Molly Scott Cato , External Communications Coordinator, England and Wales Green Party, Vice Chair of the European Movement, Formerly Green MEP for South West England and Gibraltar.