What if we put nature first? What would the world look like in 2050, and how would your life be transformed when the priorities of nature are put above your own? What restrictions have been put on your society, so you can live within the planet’s means? How will this all make you feel? The Ministry for Nature explores what may happen, if our long neglected life support systems are given a chance to thrive, and how we may come to terms with the changes necessary to avoid climate catastrophe.

Authors Jaione Cerrato and Jon Halls speculate about a world where nature takes precedence. The book’s imagery has been developed through a research process that includes interviews and workshops, theoretical research, and a field trip to collect material from a community on the front line of climate change in Europe – the citizens and the nature of Southern Europe. This experimental work of visual and speculative fiction traces a journey to the future to confront us with the changes in nature that we will see, and for which we must make and demand a change today!