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Natalie Bennett

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Natalie has been the editor of the Guardian Weekly newspaper, a volunteer
with the Thai National Commission on Women’s Affairs, and a (not very
good) rugby player, football goalie and cricket wicketkeeper. She has lived
on three continents, taken degrees in agricultural science, history and politics,
and social science, and gone from being the child of an apprentice carpenter
in Australia to membership of the UK House of Lords (since 2019).
She joined the Green Party of England and Wales on January 1, 2006,
with the resolution to “do something” about the state of the world, but would
never have predicted where it would lead her.
A feminist from age five, when she was told because she was a girl, she
was not allowed to have a bicycle, Natalie became
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Had a lovely discussion about my book Green Thinking on The Educated Guess podcast with Dr Dan O’Hare and Dr Cora Sargeant.

As you might expect from two educational psychologists, they were particularly interested in my (very critical) take on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which really, as I set out in the book and podcast, based on the flimsiest of foundations, yet still running rampant in rightw Read more of this blog post »
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Change Everything

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Slow Down or Die by Timothée Parrique
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This short, very readable text demolishes the idea of "green growth", slaps down the concept that GDP is in any way an appropriate measure of national progress, and explains why the circular economy is a necessary but far from sufficient foundation f ...more
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This short, very readable text demolishes the idea of "green growth", slaps down the concept that GDP is in any way an appropriate measure of national progress, and explains why the circular economy is a necessary but far from sufficient foundation f ...more
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Women Latin Poets by Jane Stevenson
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Possibly the finest single piece of scholarship I have ever read. Only three decades ago, so distinguished a feminist historian as Gerda Lerner was saying there were no more than 300 learned women up until 1700 in the entire Christian era, suggesting ...more
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The Disorderly Society by Dr. Bobo Lo
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Realistic, even blunt, assessment of the change geopolitical order, bravely right up to date. With the clear conclusion that "if there is to be an international society of the future, it will not resembly the relatively narrow ‘society of states’ des ...more
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“The energy, time and talents of billions of humans, working with respect for and in co-operation with all of the living creatures on this planet and the immensely complex ecosystems on which they and we depend, can be a truly caring, humane, just world. We do not have to repeat the 1930s and 1940s. It is our choice to seize the democratic power to stop it happening, to turn away from that far-right leader shouting crude insults at anyone they determine an enemy of 'the people'. We can jointly choose a positive direction, rethink the ways our societies operate, restore that which has been frayed and worn down, rebuild anew a sustainable, caring, joyful way of living.”
Natalie Bennett, Change Everything

“Whatever we make, or invent, or build, is with us forever; we cannot throw it away. The methan and carbon diocide we put into the atmosphere will have effects, just like the nitrogen and phospate we flush into our rivers. They will end up impacting on human and more-than-human bodies, and lives. So the first question is 'should we be doing this?' That must replace the standard 20th-century question: 'can we make a profit from doing this?”
Natalie Bennett, Green Thinking

“The energy, time and talents of billions of humans, working with respect for and in co-operation with all of the living creatures on this planet and the immensely complex ecosystems on which they and we depend, can be a truly caring, humane, just world. We do not have to repeat the 1930s and 1940s. It is our choice to seize the democratic power to stop it happening, to turn away from that far-right leader shouting crude insults at anyone they determine an enemy of 'the people'. We can jointly choose a positive direction, rethink the ways our societies operate, restore that which has been frayed and worn down, rebuild anew a sustainable, caring, joyful way of living.”
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