Last month, I had the honor and privilege of being invited to participate in the launch of Transition Town Warri. While the explicit purpose of my trip to Nigeria was simply to co-facilitate an introductory Transition Launch Training, as I’ve done many times before, it ended up being much more than that. For me, it was an intensely challenging but hugely transformational and deeply hopeful experience I’ll never forget.

In this first interview for Evolutionary Change, I had the great pleasure of speaking with Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the international Transition Towns Movement, about two forthcoming projects: his latest book, How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World, and an ambient-electronic music album, Field Recordings from the Future.

If the majority continues to misunderstand the true causes of the Great Unraveling and doesn’t see a better option than trying in vain to preserve the past, we may end up falling again and again for charlatans like Trump.