{"id":49793,"date":"2026-08-20T11:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=49793"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:59:10","slug":"book-ecocivilization-making-a-world-that-works-for-all-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/book-ecocivilization-making-a-world-that-works-for-all-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: \u201cEcocivilization: Making a World that Works for All\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cEcocivilization: Making a World that Works for All\u201d<\/a> by Jeremy Lent<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Melville House, 400 pages, $33<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Species extinction. Billionaire capture of governments. Inequality so extreme it\u2019s destabilizing democracies. A return to large-scale war. Such events have combined to create an everything-all-at-once situation in the world that is no coincidence, according to a new book, \u201cEcocivilization,\u201d by Berkeley resident Jeremy Lent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are deeper, underlying causes to these things that are making them happen at the same time,\u201d said Lent, who has spent the past two decades building the framework that explores why civilization is fracturing \u2014 and what could replace it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book\u2019s title is shorthand for \u201cecological civilization,\u201d the notion that we need to change not just one part of our civilization, but create an entirely different kind of civilization, Lent said, one that allows humans to live in harmony with the natural world and each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lent, the co-founder of Ecocivilization Coalition, with members from around the globe, and founder of Deep Transformation Network, is considered a leading authority on the subject. The Guardian\u2019s George Monbiot described Lent as \u201cone of the greatest thinkers of our age.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jeremy Lent. Courtesy of the author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Right now, \u201cour whole global system is all about growing the economy as fast as possible, having markets determine everything, having the wealth go to whoever is able to come up with the most successful product and using technology that we have no control over,\u201d Lent said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He aims to show readers how bad things actually are right now but also provide hope. He proposes the idea of a life-affirming society, \u201ca civilization that is simply based on setting the conditions for all beings to thrive on a regenerating earth,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the book, Lent highlights five necessary changes for humanity\u2019s flourishing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. A universal basic income framed not as welfare but as a citizen\u2019s share of wealth built from generations of shared knowledge, infrastructure and natural resources.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Meaningful corporate charter reform with renewal tied to proven social and environmental accountability.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The expression of deliberative democracy \u2014 with citizens\u2019 assemblies and sortition-based governing bodies making binding decisions, from local planning to national climate policy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Legal rights for nature: giving oceans, land and their inhabitants standing as entities, not just property for human use.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Replacing GDP as the main measure of success with models like Doughnut Economics, which tracks whether people\u2019s needs are met without exceeding planetary limits. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cThese ideas are not in the utopian world but actually being done,\u201d Lent said. \u201cIt will take a huge amount of effort and work, but a different kind of future is available to us if we all pull together to actually make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u201cEcocivilization: Making a World that Works for All\u201d by Jeremy Lent Melville House, 400 pages, $33 Species extinction. Billionaire capture of governments. Inequality so extreme it\u2019s destabilizing democracies. A return to large-scale war. Such events have combined to create an everything-all-at-once situation in the world that is no coincidence, according to… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1945],"tags":[1946,1947],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49794,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49793\/revisions\/49794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}