Excerpt | ‘The Patterning Instinct’: Transforming our Society to Sustainable Flourishing

By Jeremy Lent

What would it take to navigate toward a future of sustainable flourishing? The economic system driving our current trajectory would need to be transformed, along with its underlying values: the pursuit of never-ending material growth and the glorification of humanity’s conquest of nature. Could such a drastic transformation of our global system really take place in the foreseeable future?