Nature Is Not a Machine—We Treat It So at Our Peril
By Jeremy Lent, Patterns of Meaning
From genetic engineering to geoengineering, we treat nature as though it’s a machine. This view of nature is deeply embedded in Western thought, but it’s a fundamental misconception with potentially disastrous consequences.
The Future Is Not a Spectator Sport
By Jeremy Lent, Resilience.org
This points to the most important characteristic of the future: it is something that we are all co-creating as part of the interconnected web of our collective thoughts, ideas, and actions.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 47 Jeremy Lent
By Vicki Robin, Jeremy Lent, Resilience.org
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. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
The Ideology of Human Supremacy
By Jeremy Lent, Resilience.org
The somber truth is that the vast bulk of nature’s staggering abundance has already disappeared. We live in a world characterized primarily by the relative silence and emptiness of its natural spaces.
Complexity, cooperation, and civilization
By Jeremy Lent, Resilience.org
Life’s glorious triumph on Earth has been achieved, not just through increased complexity, but also increased cooperation. In fact, the two go hand in hand.
Introduction to The Web of Meaning
By Jeremy Lent, Resilience.org
As our civilization careens toward a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction, and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. Our dominant worldview has passed its expiration date: it’s based on a series of flawed assumptions that have been superseded by modern scientific findings.
Awakening to Life
By Jeremy Lent, Kosmos Journal
Awakening to life in this century of turmoil is far from a painless experience. It takes courage, authenticity, and the humility to reach out to others when the enormity of the loss becomes too unbearable to hold in your own heart.
What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
By Jeremy Lent, YES! magazine
In short, we need to change the basis of our global civilization. We must move from a civilization based on wealth accumulation to one that is life-affirming: an ecological civilization.