For millions of years, humans thrived as nomadic egalitarian hunter gatherers. It was only around 10,000 years ago that a few societies around the world began to experiment with sedentism, agriculture, and hoarding of resources. These societies spurred feedback loops of growth, inequality, and environmental devastation, conquering and colonizing and domesticating everyone and everything in their path causing the sixth largest mass extinction in the history of life on earth. Today we live in a world that is a mismatch of our evolution in more ways than one. We feel disconnected, isolated, and powerless. Can we find our way back to a life that better matches how humans aught to live? What can we learn about how to live well from other cultures who figured it out? Is there time to reverse our self destructive trajectory? How can we reclaim our wildness? These are the themes of the Rewilding Podcast. I’m your host Peter Michael Bauer.
We are in the midst of a cultural and environmental collapse. The recent project of civilization has failed humanity, and we are in search of new systems modeled after the ones that came before. The most resilient ways of living are the ones that are adaptive, regenerative, and regional. We are creating transitional models of living together to escape and minimize the fall out and to and thrive in an uncertain future. Rewilding creates a new narrative, backed by contemporary science and research, and millions of years of human stories of living in relative harmony with their ecosystems and one another.
Rewilding can’t be done alone. It can only be done together. Join me as I converse with experts from many converging fields that help us craft cultures of resilience. Weaving together a range of topics from ecology to wilderness survival skills to permaculture, each episode deepens and expands your understanding of how to rewild yourself and your community.
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