Seven Plants to Save the World

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Seven Plants to Save the World: The Rise of the Weeds and an End to the Diseases of Civilization

Aeon Books, 2025

An original and unique perspective looking at how civilisation and the systems holding it up can be reformed by looking for solutions from the perspective of the plants.

A book about plants like no other. A book about seven plants — nettle, dandelion, yarrow, plantain, cannabis, hawthorn and blackberry — and how they literally could save our world. You never could have imagined how fascinating a whole chapter on nettles could be, how incredible and forgotten all these plants have become, with one already very much on the rise again after a century of vilification.

A path-defining exploration of herbs which, using only seven key plants, provides an economically viable and fully costed guide on how we can support the planet and all humankind — just with seven plants. A complete reformation of the health, food, economic and industrial systems from just seven plants.

Reviews

Karl Elliot-Gough's seven chosen plants are supremely beneficial to mankind, yet if noticed at all are condemned as weeds. He passionately makes the case for how they can (and should) spearhead a revolution in tackling the diseased foundations of civilization. I love the audacity of it, the blend of deep research and personal experience, the fearlessness in taking on any authority or dogma, the costed solutions. I have so enjoyed my wild ride with Seven Plants, and it leaps straight into my top ten list of all herbal books.

~ Matthew Seal, co-author of Hedgerow Medicine, Eat Your Weeds! and more

What an enthralling journey this book took me on. Outlining so much fascination about the seven plants. Here you will find solutions to a healthier soil, healthier humans and healthier society. This might be underground now but this book needs to become mainstream as soon as possible.

~ Paul Benhaim, Chairman at The Hemp Plastic Company, CEO at Elixinol. The OG Hempreneur

A prodigious labour of love and a remarkable polemic against global consumer capitalism told with enormous energy and wit.

~ Julian Barker, herbalist and author of Human Health and Its Maintenance and Physic

I can't recommend this book highly enough. Seven Plants to Save The World is a fascinating & generally uplifting read that examines the nature of the titular seven plants which have been intimately entwined with human health throughout the existence of our species until very recently.

~ Corin

This is already one of my top five books about herbs. Here you can find everything you want to know — how to use them, how indigenous people used them, studies and facts from all around the world and much, much more. I just love this book!

~ Birgitta

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