"Bennett's bold and compelling thinking shows how traditional philosophy has all too often misunderstood the truth about human nature. It is co-operation and collaboration that have ensured 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 that our world urgently needs it."Jennifer Nadel, Writer and award winning journalist "Learning is difficult 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, cut the 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 comfort blanket.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 for purpose —if that purpose is the continuation of complex life on earth — and explore all the extraordinary, generative mycelial networks that can and will lift us to a new system where humanity 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 reading for anyone who wants humanity to thrive."Manda Scott, Author and Accidental Gods podcaster"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 to spectacular violence and roared on by a media chamber of hyenas. But breakdown can lead to breakthrough: the coming community forged in mutual aid and respect for earth others beckons irresistibly. Hope must become expectation. 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 to be 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 from harnessing the creative potential of the human spirit and building a world where we, and all creatures, can flourish. I applaud Natalie's dissident spirit and her determination to uphold the valuable 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"This is an essential handbook for those who want to unpack decades of dangerous orthodoxy about the way the world apparently works. We've been told that we are all in it for ourselves, that the market should be set free, that the state is bad. Natalie shows us that green thinking is key to a radically better world and that true human progress comes when we work together."Danny Sriskandarajah, Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation“There’s an urgent need for Natalie’s ‘Green Thinking.’ Given the crises we’ve caused and are now facing, our intellectual and political edifices are not up to the job. We need fresh thinking. Sometimes that thinking will be radical and new. Sometimes it will mean bringing ancient ideas back to the fore. Either way, we need our “Green Thinking” to be bold. And it must avoid the siren songs of wishful thinking, romanticisation, the “nature is good” fallacy, technophobia, and nostalgia for some imagined, perfect past.Our guides should be evidence, reasoning and compassion. An open, pluralistic sort of evidence and reasoning that goes far beyond the usual “Western thought” suspects. And a compassion that extends way beyond humanity to at least include the quintillions of other sentient beings that share our planet. We have a chance for humanity to become their hope rather than their nemesis. But the clock is ticking. For all of us.”Jamie Woodhouse"A powerful and timely call to rethink how we understand progress, knowledge and our place in the natural world. Written with clarity, courage and hope, Green Thinking challenges assumptions and inspires new ways of seeing the future."Professor Peter Frankopan, FRHistS FRSL FRGS FRAS FRAI FRSA, Professor of Global History, Worcester College, Oxford
