Overview

Green Thinking is about unlearning, discarding damaging, outdated ideas deeply rooted in our societies. It seeks to “compost” the views of dead white men (René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Norman Borlaugh) and of some not white or dead (Francis Fukuyama, Richard Dawkins, Richard Thaler), and explores the flowering of probiotic Green thinking, and the rediscovery in the 21st century of powerful indigenous and other previously repressed thinking. Natalie Bennett understands that 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 of 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 tens of thousands of years. This means acknowledging that the time, energy and talents of all life 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 Future, and HPS podcasts.

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""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

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

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