Inma's Reviews > At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies

An invitational conversation for everyone who still believes in modernity

For those who have passed that threshold toward what Dougald Hine calls the small path, like me, this book shows how not-being-coherent is part of the journey. How our generation might have to learn to live in two worlds, one dying, the other one in embryonic movement which, as a friend of mine told me recently, has the past in the frontpack, and the future in the backpack. Also to remind us that we will not be there to see the forest world, but that we can imagine it and gift the fruits of that imagining to those after us. There are parts of the book that are incoherently expressed, there is also some lack of perspectives, but I didn’t come to read it expecting anything else more than a journey, and as a fellow pilgrim, I recognise the value in it.