Team Human Jeremy Lent: Reweaving Civilization
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Nov 26, 2025 Jeremy Lent, an author focused on worldview and civilization patterns, dives into the patterns that have led society to its sustainability crisis. He discusses how systemic breakdowns can create opportunities for radical change and the importance of replacing extractive systems with eco-civilization principles. They explore the challenges of capitalism's dominance and the urgency for collective transformation through cooperation and mutual aid. Lent emphasizes the need for grounded meaning and the pivotal role of cooperation in human evolution.
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Grief Fuels Transformative Possibility
- Jeremy Lent holds deep grief and fear but centers action on the possibility of transformation amid collapse.
- He sees degrees of freedom in crisis as the real space for meaningful change.
Adaptive Cycle Opens Regeneration Window
- The adaptive cycle shows systems grow, conserve, release, then regenerate with high freedom.
- Jeremy Lent argues we're in the release phase offering unique opportunity to reorient civilization.
Modernity Turbocharged The Wealth Pump
- Modernity automated and turbocharged extraction and the wealth-pump for 500 years.
- Lent warns global interconnectedness makes potential collapse far more consequential than past empire failures.
