Sarah Wilson has built a career on telling uncomfortable truths, including about sugar, anxiety, and how we’re living.
Her new book, I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World, goes further than anything she’s written before. It argues we are already inside systemic collapse and experiencing the same pattern every complex civilisation before us has followed. The way through is to stop performing hope and start experiencing the world around us./
In this conversation with Angela Priestley, Sarah explains what “collapse” actually means, why women may be uniquely placed to lead through it, and what she calls “fierce mother energy” — the antidote to the “fierce toddler energy” of the men currently running the world. She also tackles the question every parent is asking: how do we talk to our kids about this?
It is, against all odds, a hopeful listen.
I Eat the Stars is out now in Australia and New Zealand via Penguin, with global release on 16 June 2026.
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