This breakthrough book by a noted visionary scientist-author reveals the corruptions of and solutions for a global culture deeply troubled by pollution, greed and suppression. Many approaches are examined: scientific, ecological, philosophical, political, social, spiritual and personal. Included are the latest developments in new energy, oil politics, what underlies the California and global energy crunch, and what choices we have for solving the crisis. Much more, this book is a blueprint for what we must do. I Re-Inheriting the Earth is a call to action for general readers worldwide. It is for concerned global citizens open to solutions and wary of the collusion between large industries and Western governments. In America, the readership would include most Democrats, disillusioned Republicans, and those who didn't vote at all in 2000 (that's most of us). It includes those fed up with the conventional wisdom of the media, universities and corporations.     

This book provides answers we will need to implement in the near future. Included are a wide variety of clean, renewable and cost effective energy options, and ways of reversing our abusive global industrial, forestry, agricultural and water use practices, through a mix of traditional and innovative approaches. In the second part, we address the most challenging problem of all: first understanding the nature of our tyranny, and second, looking at ways in which we can change socially and personally to meet the challenge. Dr. O'Leary shares his regret that his native America leads the way in global pollution, but he also points out that the U.S. is a land of innovation and answers.

Towards the end of the book, O'Leary suggests "we are in a global spiritual crisis which demands that we remove our veils of denial and enter a new science of consciousness, exploring our potential to heal, our eternal nature, and our membership in a cosmic community of beings." We must not only create an ecologically sustainable future, he says, but we need to lift ourselves out of poverty, war, meaningless work and the ignorance of new knowledge. He concludes that we need to form a global green democracy which would oversee our sustainable, peaceful and mind-expanding futures.

Synopsis of Chapters

Introduction: The New Apollo Program

Chapter 1.

Become Aware of the Situation and Be Willing to Look at Solutions: The Situation is Not New, but It's Getting Far Worse (the grim statistics from the World-watch's State of the World )...The Big Fossil Fuel Burnup ...What is Our Future?...The Deepening Crisis and American Responsibility...From Economic Elitism to Ecological Realism...The Millennial Snapshot... Where are the Environmentalists?...The Mandate...

Chapter 2.

Develop Nonpolluting Energy: What Then are the Solutions?...The Cold Fusion Revolution...Hydrogen Gas Cells: The Trump Card Technology?...Other New Energy Approaches...The Distiction between Research, Development and Deployment...Two Groups of Scientists...What if New Energy Options Don't Work?...The Hydrogen Economy...What We Must Do Now...

Chapter 3.

Preserve, Restore and Sustain the Biosphere: Restoring Sustainability...Biodiversity...Food Supply and Agriculture...Now the Good News: Hemp and Azomite...Sustaining our Forests...The Magic of Water...The Quality of Water...Recycling and Waste Disposal...Reflections and Summary...

Chapter 4.

Form a Global Green Democracy: Finding the Money to Begin...Towards a Global Green Democracy (Ecological sustainability and beauty, a lasting world peace and world government, social justice, ecolonomic con-version, research and development on solutions)...The People are There to Do the Job... What We Must Do (create world forums on sustainability, expand the sciences of social change and sustainability, form alliances, elect a council of elders)...Towards an Ecological Ethic...

Chapter 5.

Clean Up and Enhance Our Personal Ecologies: Changes Imposed on My Parents and Myself...Western Medicine, Public Health and Holistic Healing...What are My Experiences in Toxic and Healthy Environments?...The Coming Plague...Reversing Our Diseased Environment...The Consciousness Medicine Revolution...Research Shows that We Survive Death...We are Not Alone in the Universe...The Official Cult of Secrecy (the need to expand our accepted knowledge base)...

Chapter 6.

Create a New Science of Consciousness: Today's Frontier Science Becomes Tomorrow's Reality in Spite of Appearances... Consciousness as a Common Denominator of a New Science...Experiments in the Zero Point Field: Extracting Energy from the Vacuum...Quantum Physics Inevitably Leads to Consciousness...Parapsychology Experiments and Experiences Also Prove Conscious-ness...The Influence of Human Intention on Water and Living Matter: One Man's Amazing Synthesis...The Cosmology of Consciousness...Consciousness Reaches Across the Board in the Academic Disciplines...Towards a New Science of Consciousness...The Coming Consciousness Revolution

Chapter 7.

Adopt a Manifesto for Sustainability: A Declaration of Interdependence.

What Readers are Saying About "Re-Inheriting the Earth"

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