Unlock the key to some of our time’s greatest challenges.

This book is about how and why each of us truly matter in responding to climate change and other global crises.

Have we been underestimating our collective capacity for social change?

Join author and leading social scientist Karen O’Brien in an exploration of the extraordinary potential that lies within people to create meaningful changes in the world.

Drawing on metaphors and meanings from quantum physics, Karen gives inspiration for action and new understandings of how we may actually solve global environmental issues, and create a thriving and flourishing world for everyone.

Are you concerned about climate change and other environmental issues? Are you eager for change and open to the idea that each of us may have a bigger role to play in solving the greatest challenges of our time? Then this book is for you.

Because you matter more than you think.

“This book offers ground breaking insights into quantum social change. This book opens avenues into new understandings of society and individuals. This book shows how we might better think and respond to the global challenges we face. This book challenges the paradigm and assumptions that underlie most of social science to day.

To pioneering and adventurous thinkers in the social sciences I can highly recommend this book.” 

- IAN BURTON, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

“This book matters. … In clear and concise language, social scientist Karen O’Brien has offered us a code book for the kind of quantum social change that can arise from non-dualistic, ‘entangled’ agency. If we take the timely and revolutionary ideas set forth in this beautifully written and illustrated book to heart, and if we then act on them in our own lives, then each and every one of us can be a catalyst for positive climate change.

This book matters, because the climate crisis changes everything, and everything must change in response. Read this book with the same sense of urgency you feel for your children’s future, and you will be inspired to become the change we all want to see in the world.”

 - ZHIWA WOODBURY, M.A., J.D., AUTHOR OF CLIMATE TRAUMA, RECONCILIATION & RECOVERY (2022).

“An uplifting book about the future? Yes and a good one too. As a respected scholar in Human Geography, Karen O’Brien knows what she is talking about. … O’Brien brilliantly elaborates what the latter means for our agency to help nudging society towards a future of thriving.

An equally brilliant contribution to the book comes from visual artist Tone Bjordam. Each of the color drawings is food for thought, not just beautiful but also fascinating, building additional layers of association on the written material.

A must-read if you are searching for credible positive arguments amidst the avalanche of doom talk.”

- MARTEN SCHEFFER, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR, WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY

‘’You Matter More Than You Think is more than just a book. It is an awakening, a how-to manual showing a new path to social and ecological regeneration.’'

- PAUL HAWKEN, AUTHOR OF REGENERATION, ENDING THE CLIMATE CRISIS IN ONE GENERATION

‘’This book offers us a new way of looking at – and then moving towards – the transformational social change we know we need for the future we keep saying we want.’'

- HEIDE HACKMANN, FORMER CEO, INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE

“This remarkable book’s message that we can all make a meaningful difference is needed more than ever after years of missed opportunities for climate and biodiversity policy. It is an important contribution to the efforts of dedicated people around the world doing all they can to achieve real social and cultural change for the long-term good of the earth and all its denizens.”

- STEVEN HARTMAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, BRIDGES, SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE COALITION IN THE UNESCO MANAGEMENT OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS PROGRAMME

‘’Karen invites us to rethink what it means to be a living, thinking agent in our hyper-complex and troubled world. It’s a hopeful book about our capacity to enact progressive change in the face of global challenges.’’

- NOEL CASTREE, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

‘’Dr. Karen O'Brien invites us to recognize and manifest the immense power we each have to make significant contributions and changes to address climate change. Her book is very timely. Many are resigned and live with a sense of hopelessness in the face of the tremendous climate crisis.‘’ 

- DR MONICA SHARMA, AUTHOR OF “RADICAL TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP: STRATEGIC ACTION FOR CHANGE AGENTS” & FORMER DIRECTOR OF LEADERSHIP & CAPACITY BUILDING, OHRLLS, UNITED NATIONS

‘’Karen O’Brien explains in a readable and yet theoretically persuasive way why quantum onto-epistemologies offer possibilities for thinking differently about how the universe is made, how we inhabit the world, and how we can change it. The book beautifully bridges the divide between theory and praxis … it constitutes an innovative way to make quantum count for changing the world.’'

- LAURA ZANOTTI, VIRGINIA TECH UNIVERSITY & AUTHOR OF ONTOLOGICAL ENTANGLEMENTS, AGENCY AND ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS