How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them

Peter Wohlleben, author of Sunday Times bestseller, 'The Hidden Life of Trees', compares tree planting to battery farming and argues that trees will survive environmental disaster but suggests that we won’t be around to see that happen if we don’t make changes now. Wohlleben describes astonishing discoveries about how trees pass knowledge down to succeeding generations and their ability to survive climate change and is unsparing in his criticism of those who wield economic and political power — who plant trees exclusively for the sake of logging and virtue signaling — even as they ruthlessly exploit nature.

Join us to launch his new book, 'The Power of Trees', just ahead of his appearance on Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 on Monday 24 April.