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Jeremy Lent discusses his upcoming book on building an eco-civilization and the need for systemic change.

Jeremy Lent is a long time friend of the podcast. His new book, 'Ecocivilization: Making a World That Works for All' is coming out at the end of April 2026 and so we got together to discuss what an Ecocivilisation is, why we so badly need to become one, and how we might get there. These questions have animated all of Jeremy Lent's writing, from The Patterning Instinct , through The Web of Meaning and now to his latest in this seminal trifecta: Ecocivilization: Making a World That Works For All . We spoke to Jeremy back in Episode #301 to lay the foundations of the book, to explore the ways the current system is not fit for purpose and then to leave the door open for this episode, which is timed so that you can pre-order the book in plenty of time - it's out on the 26th of May in the US and the 28th in the UK. This is a genuinely Thrutopian book in that it lays out pathways - route maps - towards a future we'd be proud to leave behind. Nobody is pretending these are the only routes, but I think we are all agreed that the values and beliefs underpinning the new system will have to be coherent in the same way the values of power-over and beliefs in separation, scarcity and…

People in this episode

Host: Accidental Gods

Guest: Jeremy Lent

Topics covered

• Ecocivilization
• sustainability
• future pathways
• capitalism critique
• spirituality
• nature

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Ecocivilization: Making a World That Works for All, The Patterning Instinct, The Web of Meaning

Places: US, UK

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