Heroes Not Zombies

Darwin identified two drivers of evolution – collaboration and competition. It’s the latter behaviour which has dominated the development of our societies, almost to the complete exclusion of understanding the importance of the former.

We need both in order to survive, and if we get the balance wrong, we all suffer. Wherever you look in Nature you see the importance of relationships between creatures, and, much less understood, the importance of positive, mutually beneficial bonds between different species – between plants and insects, insects and birds, fungi and plants….and so on.

Nothing really survives or thrives in isolation.

We need each other.