Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement to Regenerate Nature, Society, and the Economy

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Having once nearly drowned off the coast of South Africa, Wayne Visser knows what it is like to be frightened for one’s own life—and he also knows what it is like to be terrified that our very civilization is heading for the abyss. I’m a medical practitioner and board-certified lifestyle medicine physician, specialising in brain health and mental performance.

There, I was joining 200 other young people from 50 countries at a global conference on sustainable development, organized by the Association of International Students in Economics and Commerce (AIESEC). In the same way, if we want to change an organization or our society, we have to change its underlying roots—its values and culture, its rules and beliefs, its embedded power and incentive structures.Aside from a gentle classical soundtrack and the occasional hiss from the coffee machine, they work in silence. For those of us who need watering, for anyone who is still undone, On Thriving will doula, support, nourish, and grow even the most fragile of us. Still, as he assures us, "life constantly triumphs over death; it tends toward synergy, where parts join to form a greater whole. Seasoned readers, first-timers, those in a slump, we recommend based on what we think they would like.

It’s an indispensable read for the assignees and their partners, a book to keep handy in the messiest moment of a family’s life. The good news is that the various forms of decay we see in nature, society, and our economies are serving as triggers for six societal shifts or great transformations, which we explore in this book. It is a time of great transformation in the world, when rapid changes are bringing innovative solutions to counter the great dangers we face.When we look at the trends for challenges such as income inequality, biodiversity loss, climate change, chemical pollution, and gender inequality, the world has been going backward, not forward. The black swan trajectories that now have the power to send our economies spiraling off into the abyss press in with increasing urgency, among them the climate and biodiversity emergencies that are increasingly obvious to ordinary citizens in the form of once-in-a-lifetime floods, droughts, and conflagrations. If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and of the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon. LinkedIn and 3rd parties use essential and non-essential cookies to provide, secure, analyze and improve our Services, and to show you relevant ads (including professional and job ads) on and off LinkedIn.