Animate Earth | Stephan Harding
Why it is included:
We cannot build the future using only the linear thinking that broke the present.
Yunkaporta, an Indigenous academic, applies Aboriginal Complexity Theory to modern problems.
He critiques the obsession with isolation and extraction, offering instead a model of "Relational Reality"—where nothing exists in isolation.
This is the perfect counterweight to Western science.
It teaches us how to think in loops, systems, and deep time.
It is a manual for "pattern thinking," ensuring that our solutions don't just solve a narrow problem but integrate harmoniously with the complex living systems of the Earth.
