Jeremy Lent is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. His upcoming book, Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All, will be published on May 26. He is founder of the Deep Transformation Network and co-founder of the Ecocivilization Coalition. His previous two books were The Web of Meaning and The Patterning Instinct.
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Finding a lever for civilizational transformation
From Indigenous-led governance to worker-owned cooperatives, scattered experiments may offer a blueprint for a pathway out of our global predicament.
July 2, 2026
Most of the world’s wealth belongs to all of us. It’s time to start collecting
As extreme inequality worsens and AI concentrates wealth into the hands of a small elite, insisting that the wealth generated by our collective inheritance be shared with all its rightful beneficiaries is not so much a political position as a moral imperative.
June 25, 2026
How the neoliberals won — and what we can learn from them
How movements working for a life-affirming future can learn from history — and from each other.
June 2, 2026
Is a new Copernican Revolution already underway?
A growing movement for the rights of nature and recognition of animal consciousness is challenging the ideology of human supremacy, treating the Earth as a community of beings rather than human property. It is a paradigm shift that may be the most urgent revolution of our time.
May 28, 2026
History suggests inequality ends in catastrophe. We need another path
History offers a grim account of how structural change occurs. But concealed within that bleakness is a window of possibility that opens just when things fall apart.
May 19, 2026
Democracy was never designed to work — but something better is emerging
From Ireland to Taiwan, experiments in citizens’ assemblies suggest new ways of governing. This essay argues that the limits of electoral politics are structural and that more participatory systems may be essential to meet the challenges ahead.
May 6, 2026
