Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence

Different specialities are stuck in their own narrow lanes, blinkered to the possibilities of others. One of the first obstacles we must face, a key ‘switch’ we need to flick, is to shift our mindset so that we no longer see plants merely as resources for carbon capture or safeguarding food production, but as actors alongside us in the climate crisis.

If we privilege animal and especially human channels of communication and ways of knowing, we will miss the bulk of the meaning in the natural world around us.