Did you read Lord of the Flies in school? I did, and it seemed so real, even though it was a novel. It was a depressing imagination of how people would behave if all societal structure was gone, and it became a popular cultural reference.

But it wasn’t true. There was a real story, far more amazing and inspiring than anything Golding had imagined. It was a story of what happened when schoolboys used their local indigenous knowledge to help themselves survive together, co-operatively, creatively and sustainably.