Everyone should read this book now. And maybe read it twice. Or even put it on a regular rotation—say, once per year. It’s short so that’s not going to take up too much of your time. Oh, but what it will take of your thinking!
Taking the humble serviceberry as an example, Ms. Kimmerer roams to economics and examples of how small local solutions can bring on very much happiness. Because, as she says, and we should all know, an economic system based on ever increasing growth, ever-increasing depletion of finite resources, is doomed to fail. “…it is an engine of extinction.”
And she gives lot of little examples of how we can progress beyond that fallacy and eventually arrive at an economy based on mutual respect and reciprocity.
On top of all that “philosophizing”, she writes some heart-achingly beautiful prose. It’s just lovely, like all her writings. (Except the gut-wrenching ones.)
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