At 74, she still interrupts with the urgency of an eager student, determined to win over every skeptic or amplify her message alongside the converted. And it’s quite a crowd she has gathered. Her vocal supporters include the Dalai Lama, the British comedian Russell Brand, the San Francisco chef Alice Waters, and Iain McGilchrist, the Oxford literary scholar and psychiatrist. “Encouraging local communities is a vital antidote to universal globalism.”“And if civilization should break down,” he added, “it will be our only hope for survival. We need to be acting on her ideas now.”Those ideas can be found in books and in documentaries, along with conferences and regular lectures tied to her nonprofit organization, Local Futures, which has offices in Australia, Britain and the United States.

Source: International New York Times October 09, 2020 10:07 UTC