Ecocide: Reviews

With great intellectual might, ‘Ecocide’ evokes a focus on culture which it traces from Plato to the present and shows that our current malaise is not fossil fuels. They’re the symptom. The disease is our mind and our culture. The book is a clarion call, a bell that rings for a change in mindset as the key to survival of our planet, the most important book of our times, it will change the world.

At the heart of the problem and hopefully of the solution, is the attitude, the mindset that has at its heart monotheism and adoption of the teachings of Plato. Our mental illness and our ecological crisis come from our own psychology conditioned by our culture.

A wonderfully extensive review of literature, from ancient Greek to contemporary thought, covering the notion of the soul, synonymous with immortality, but also – insidiously – with disembodiment, entering our belief systems through Plato’s lofty persuasions, leading us to devalue our physicality, with vast effects, impacting social order, mental health, and ecology.

Thought-provoking. An excellent springboard from which to question beliefs. It changed my attitudes.

The degree to which Christianity incorporated ideas from other sources, I found unexpectedly new.

With ecological implications in mind, Wilson explores what comprises the human person: are we animal, mind, soul, self, agent, ecosystem? He shows how our self-perception enhances or threatens biology.

Particularly satisfying are his psychoanalyses surrounding Plato, and discussions on contemporary conceptions of self.

A delight, a handsome volume distilling years of thought and research, with clarity of writing, reaching out to everyone from academia to Extinction Rebellion with a message from the wild, a fearless attack on our current world – built on foundations of sand. I am now much better informed about Plato.

From start to finish, this marvellous book dissects our hopeless enslavement to the idea of the soul and how it protects us from looking at what is really important, and that is our bodies and nature. The book is probably the most important book I have ever read – in my life.

A huge amount of research compressed into a lengthy, erudite and most thought provoking read. This remarkable book documenting the evolution of the western concept of the soul from earliest Orphic times, promoted by Plato, philosophers, and religious figures over the last couple of millennia. He details how the concept of the soul has devastated western civilisation and is leading to ecocide, the end of the world as we know it. 

I am impressed by his scholarship. I have not found an error of fact! The Introduction and lead up to his thesis are expertly managed, but the test of a good book is its middle pages. The middle of Ecocide is a treat.

The chance he gives the reader to learn about the formative history of this failing civilization is valuable at a time when most know little of the origins of the religions of promised future happiness.

A great tome, both educational and entertaining. 

I learned more from reading ‘Ecocide’ than any other book I have read.

This book is fine intellectual company, with original ideas and rich historical research. It deserves wide recognition.

‘Ecocide’ is mind-blowing. It drives a stake through the soul of Christianity, Islam and Judaism, and has the potential to collapse the industry of belief.

‘Ecocide’ is both interesting and enjoyable.

Wilson has been brave enough and tenacious enough to give us: this marvellous book which should be a textbook in schools.

This stunning book has devastated my cosmic illusions so that I’m left feeling tattered and frayed but somehow remarkably light!