Sarah Wilson
12 May 2026
Collapse, chaos, crisis: these are just some of the words that best capture our precarious current moment. So how can we live meaningfully in a world undergoing such profound change?
In her lucid and vital new book, I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World (a published version of her wildly popular Substack serialisation), bestselling author and renowned speaker Sarah Wilson argues that we are living through what experts call complex systems collapse – a civilisational turning point that is already reshaping our lives. Drawing on years of research and more than 200 interviews, she explores how we might step into this moment with courage, tenderness and fierce aliveness.
Join her in conversation with Katherine Feeney for a frank and meaningful discussion about finding beauty and purpose, and becoming fully human, in a collapsing world.
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