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Podcast: Abstract Essay
Episode: Abstract Essay, now in its fifth season, features David Auge, an environmental philosopher whose thoughtful insights and visionary perspectives invite listeners into a deeply reflective and engaging conversation on humanity’s relationship with the natural world.
Description: David AugeEnvironmental PhilosopherDavid Auge has spent decades searching for the most successful way to explain sustainability to others. Now with the help of two diverse insect communities and the contrast they provide at this critical juncture of human civilization he’s done it. In this book, he not only explains how to grasp these competing approaches posed by honeybees and desert locusts, but also why these competing communities achieve the profoundly important goal of sustainability.In Man’s Search for Sustainability, David Auge teaches you how sustainable societies: