Making a World that Works for all with Jeremy Lent + News and Clips
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Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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My conversation with Jeremy begins at 24 minutes
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"One of the greatest thinkers of our age" ( The Guardian ) presents a new way of living--one modeled on nature's design instead of capitalism's--for fans of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Doughnut Economics It has often been said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism--and yet that is what the historical moment urgently calls for. Climate change has reached an emergency state, inequality continues to grow, and, for many, the future has never seemed more bleak. Incremental policy improvements are no longer enough--we need a deep transformation of our current civilization to continue to survive. In Ecocivilization, leading thinker Jeremy Lent reimagines the basis of our civilization, and argues for a new global system of living, one based on life-affirming principles modeled after nature's own design. What enfolds is a robust framework incorporating Lent's own expertise, and the lived experiences of those on the ground already putting ecological civilization's core tenants into practice--justice, mutuality, diversity, and symbiosis. From the global economy to universal housing and income, from infrastructure to agriculture, every major aspect of our society could be redesigned to work together as a coherent whole, setting the conditions for all people to flourish. Ecocivilization shows how this future on a regenerated Earth is not only desirable, but entirely feasible.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and happy Cinco de Mayo, everybody. Today I am joined by a brilliant first-time guest on the show described by Guardian journalist George Monfayat as one of the greatest thinkers of our age. He's an author, a speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of civilization's existential crisis and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. |
| 0:21.1 | He's got a new book. |
| 0:21.9 | It's called Eco-Civilization, making a world that works for all. |
| 0:26.6 | Jeremy Lent joins me for the first time today to talk about his book and his movement that he's trying to create, which I love. |
| 0:33.3 | Really interesting. |
| 0:34.5 | Love the conversation. |
| 0:35.8 | If you want to listen to it now, you can jump right |
| 0:38.0 | to it. Skip the news and headlines. It starts at 24 minutes in. But I am back with the |
| 0:44.8 | regular format of the show. I've got your top headlines from the last 24 hours and a whole bunch of |
| 0:49.9 | clips that I found relevant as well, most of which took place in a last day or two, but I do |
| 0:55.4 | have a John Lewis clip tucked in there, and I'm always happy to hear from him, listen to him, |
| 1:00.9 | and I thought it would be inspiring, given the fact that I think the top story still is last |
| 1:06.5 | week's gutting of the Voting Rights Act. We really need to talk about it and continue talking about it. |
| 1:11.9 | And we need to get to work to try to fix it. |
| 1:14.6 | However possible or impossible, that might seem, the work is there. |
| 1:19.1 | We have to do it together. |
| 1:20.8 | So that is all coming up, and I can't do any of it without your support. |
| 1:25.8 | I like to remind everybody, this is an ad-free show. You won't |
| 1:28.9 | hear any ads rolling in it, but I do have to ask you to pay for a subscription as little as |
| 1:35.3 | $5 as much as you want, patreon.com slash Pete Dominic or go over to Substack at Stand Up with Pete, |
| 1:42.4 | and you can sign up for a paid subscription there as I slowly migrate over |
| 1:46.8 | there in the year or so to come. And a lot of exciting things I hope to do this year. I can't |
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