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The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no
longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others
are beginning to do so, increasing the possibility of a global
catastrophe that would mean the end of the world as we know it. As
individuals, we are faced with a daily deluge of bad news about the
worsening situation, preparing ourselves to live with years of deep
uncertainty about the future of the planet and the species that
inhabit it, including our own. How can we cope? How can we project
ourselves beyond the present, think bigger and find ways not just
to survive the collapse but to live it? In this book, the sequel to
How Everything Can Collapse, the authors show that a change of
course necessarily requires an inner journey and a radical
rethinking of our vision of the world. Together these might enable
us to remain standing during the coming storm, to develop a new
awareness of ourselves and of the world and to imagine new ways of
living in it. Perhaps then it will be possible to regenerate life
from the ruins, creating new alliances in differing directions -
with ourselves and our inner nature, between humans, with other
living beings and with the earth on which we dwell.
In the merciless arena of life, we are all subject to the law of
the jungle, to ruthless competition and the survival of the fittest
- such is the myth that has given rise to a society that has become
toxic for our planet and for our and future generations. But today
the lines are shifting. A growing number of new movements and
thinkers are challenging this skewed view of the world and reviving
words such as 'altruism', 'cooperation', 'kindness' and
'solidarity'. A close look at the wide spectrum of living beings
reveals that, at all times and in all places, animals, plants,
microorganisms and human beings have practised different forms of
mutual aid. And those which survive difficult conditions best are
not necessarily the strongest, but those which help each other the
most. Pablo Servigne and Gauthier Chapelle explore a vast,
forgotten continent of mutual aid in order to discover the
mechanisms of this 'other law of the jungle'. In so doing, they
provide a more rounded view of the world of living things and give
us some of the conceptual tools we need to move beyond the vicious
circle of competition and self-destruction that is leading our
civilization to the verge of collapse.
In the merciless arena of life, we are all subject to the law of
the jungle, to ruthless competition and the survival of the fittest
- such is the myth that has given rise to a society that has become
toxic for our planet and for our and future generations. But today
the lines are shifting. A growing number of new movements and
thinkers are challenging this skewed view of the world and reviving
words such as 'altruism', 'cooperation', 'kindness' and
'solidarity'. A close look at the wide spectrum of living beings
reveals that, at all times and in all places, animals, plants,
microorganisms and human beings have practised different forms of
mutual aid. And those which survive difficult conditions best are
not necessarily the strongest, but those which help each other the
most. Pablo Servigne and Gauthier Chapelle explore a vast,
forgotten continent of mutual aid in order to discover the
mechanisms of this 'other law of the jungle'. In so doing, they
provide a more rounded view of the world of living things and give
us some of the conceptual tools we need to move beyond the vicious
circle of competition and self-destruction that is leading our
civilization to the verge of collapse.
The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no
longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others
are beginning to do so, increasing the possibility of a global
catastrophe that would mean the end of the world as we know it. As
individuals, we are faced with a daily deluge of bad news about the
worsening situation, preparing ourselves to live with years of deep
uncertainty about the future of the planet and the species that
inhabit it, including our own. How can we cope? How can we project
ourselves beyond the present, think bigger and find ways not just
to survive the collapse but to live it? In this book, the sequel to
How Everything Can Collapse, the authors show that a change of
course necessarily requires an inner journey and a radical
rethinking of our vision of the world. Together these might enable
us to remain standing during the coming storm, to develop a new
awareness of ourselves and of the world and to imagine new ways of
living in it. Perhaps then it will be possible to regenerate life
from the ruins, creating new alliances in differing directions -
with ourselves and our inner nature, between humans, with other
living beings and with the earth on which we dwell.
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