Join us for an evening with Ben Rawlence. We hosted Ben several years ago to hear about his book The Treeline, and are looking forward to welcoming him back with Think Like a Forest, an honest and thoughtful look at how to navigate the uncertainty of the changing climate as a parent.
Friday 29th May
6:30pm
Above the Bookshop
Think Like A Forest by Ben Rawlence
How do we raise children in a climate emergency? What should we teach them – and what kind of future are we preparing them for?Ben Rawlence began writing to his eldest daughter before she was born, trying to understand what it means to bring a child into a world facing ecological breakdown. Over the next twelve years, these letters – written to his two daughters as they grow – chart one father’s attempt to live with the central contradiction of our age: raising children within a system that threatens all life, including our own.
By turns moving and funny, and always bracingly honest, Think Like a Forest explores love, fear and responsibility in perilous times. Rawlence finds the answers might lie in learning to see the world again through the eyes of a child so that we may embrace interdependence and regain our place in nature. To think like a forest, he shows us, may be the key to how we parent, how we live, and even whether we have a future on our planet at all.