How to Survive the Next 100 Years Lessons from Nature
If you want to know how to consume a more balanced variety of knowledge to become healthier and happier by reconnecting with nature, this might be the most important book you read this year. Described as ‘a game-changer’ (Book Fiend); ‘beautiful and powerful’ (Carew, author of Beastly); ‘highly engaging’ (Schmitz, Yale Uni).
Find out why cats can make us too conservative (or just enough); grasshoppers, eels and blue gropers teach us to solve global obesity and food crises; and how the key to avoiding disaster is to work within the natural balance of our beautiful world.
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A monumentally positive shift in our relationship with Earth. Yet it’s invisible. This book will reveal that real and genuine hope. As animals our brains float above the planet’s surface. We were made to be mobile and carry our intelligence with us. A huge leap for mankind is happening right now. Contained within our minds and everything around us is the solution to our anxiety. Ecologist and naturalist Simon Mustoe shows us how to consume a more balanced variety of knowledge to become healthier and happier by reconnecting with nature. The key to avoiding disaster is to work within the natural balance of our beautiful world. Cats can make us too conservative (or just enough). Grasshoppers, eels and blue gropers teach us to solve global obesity and food crises. Simply saving wildlife in our own backyards can reduce cost of living by sixty or seventy times. How to Survive the Next 100 Years unlocks the power of our relationship with animals and nature and shows us we are already on our way to rebuilding a healthy, habitable planet.
Praise for How to Survive the Next 100 Years: Lessons from Nature
Oswald Schmitz
Keggie Carew
Carl Safina
Anissa Lawrence
Publication date: 1 May 2025
ISBN: Paperback 978-0-6454535-8-4 | Hardback 978-1-7638130-0-7
Imprint: Wildiaries publishing
Dimensions: 6.14 x 9.21” (234 x 156mm) Pages: 240
Genre: Popular science / non-fiction
About the Author
Simon Mustoe is an ecologist, artist, expedition leader and naturalist with a passion for connecting humans with the natural world. He’s tumbled in boats amid frigid north Atlantic storms, trekked solo into Madagascar’s remote dry forests and sailed the archipelagos of West Papua. As a teenager he helped produce BBC nature documentaries and as an adult he has worked with some of the world’s leading conservation, wildlife and ecology organisations. His first book, Wildlife in the Balance, received critical acclaim from the likes of Dame Joanna Lumley and Ian Redmond OBE. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
