We are often better at imagining the end of the world than we are the end of capitalism. But as climate breakdown accelerates and inequality deepens, the question is no longer theoretical. In Ecocivilization, Jeremy Lent offers a bold vision of a different future: one grounded not in extraction and growth at all costs, but in the principles that sustain life itself. Drawing on ecology, systems thinking, and examples from communities already living these ideas, he explores how our economies, cities, and ways of living could be redesigned around mutuality, diversity, and interdependence.

In conversation with Michael Pawlyn, whose work has long explored how design can learn from nature, Lent will discuss what it takes to move from vision to practice, and whether a life-affirming civilization is still within reach.