I share this because it is a perfect example of how larger issues get eclipsed by smaller, more immediate ones to our daily lives, how the local mind eclipses the “world mind”. I’m living it daily and I know other Americans are too. Likely non-Americans as well.

With each political news event in these last three months – and especially in the last (very, very long) two weeks –  I feel my Ecozoic mind trying to telegraph to my Cenozoic mind the Ecozoic interpretation of the news but I just can’t quite receive it. It is too vague, small, quiet, distant.  Maybe it is too early in the unfolding of this 45th Presidential story. Maybe there is not enough stability, not enough purchase yet in the story, to know what is so. Too much dynamism. Maybe things are too molten, not cool enough yet to lay an Ecozoic narrative over it. Which is also an example of how easy it is to ignore the larger narrative, the greater cycle of Earth’s story, when the smaller human story is chaotic.

I am able to remind myself that the Ecozoic still exists even if I cannot fully sense it these days. I guess that is a good place to start.

A book by George Monbiot

Published by Allen Lane, May 2013

The book introduces a radical new type of ‘hands-off’ nature conservation called Rewilding, and takes the reader on George’s own journey to re-connect with the natural world.

Discussing his fiercely positive vision for a grand-scale restoration of Earth’s ecosystems, George will advocate for the need to let nature take control of its own regeneration, drawing on breakthroughs in ecological science, Gaia theory and a wealth of his own research, to supports his arguments. Recognising that we as humans are embedded within our ecosystems, he will also demonstrate how rewilding can offer humanity a new and positive form of environmentalism at a time when we desperately need one, proving that a hopeful future for our planet, and ourselves, is possible. George Monbiot is a journalist, environmentalist and author well known for his environmental and political activism. He has written a number of bestselling books of which ‘Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the ­Frontiers of Rewilding‘ is his latest. George is also the founder of The Land is Ours– a peaceful campaign for the public right of access to the countryside in the UK.

*****

Press Reviews

Philip Hoare in The Sunday Telegraph:
“The book justifies its subtitle with rhapsodic descriptions of forays into the natural world. Whether kayaking off the British coast or walking the Kenyan bush, Monbiot – who studied zoology at Oxford – focuses our minds on what we have lost, and what we stand to gain. … as a passionate polemic, it could not be more rigorously researched, more elegantly delivered, or more timely. We need such big thinking for our own sakes and those of our children. Bring on the wolves and whales, I say, and, in the words of Maurice Sendak, let the wild rumpus start.”