Think Like a Forest: letters to my children from a changing planet
Tue 19 May
|The Grosvenor Arms
How do we raise children in a climate emergency? What should we teach them - and what kind of future are we preparing them for? An evening with author, Ben Rawlence, at Grosvenor Arms, Assembly Room. Book through Folde.
Time & Location
19 May 2026, 19:00 – 21:10
The Grosvenor Arms, High St, Shaftesbury SP7 8JA, UK
About the Event
Think Like a Forest
How do we raise children in a climate emergency? What should we teach them - and what kind of future are we preparing them for?
‘Beautiful and thought-provoking’ Cal Flyn‘
A delightful and important book. Every parent should read this’ Merlin Hanbury-Tenison
Ben Rawlence began writing to his eldest daughter before she was born, trying to understand what it means to bring a child into a world facing ecological breakdown. Over the next twelve years, these letters – written to his two daughters as they grow – chart one father’s attempt to live with the central contradiction of our age: raising children within a system that threatens all life, including our own. By turns moving and funny, and always bracingly honest, Think Like a Forest explores love, fear and responsibility in perilous times. Rawlence finds the answers might lie in learning to see the…