There is a book I would like you all to read, and you don't have to pay a single penny for it, if you don't want to. The book is called "Time's Up! An Uncivilized Solution To A Global Crisis" which, if you have been reading The Earth Blog for a while, you might realise is the published version of an online book I completed last year called A Matter Of Scale. The difference between Time's Up! and A Matter Of Scale, apart from the title and the cover, is in tone: A Matter Of Scale is, at times, a bit rough around the edges, a bit more edgy, and has one extra chapter regarding Anger, which didn't make it into the published version. That said, Time's Up! is most definitely the finished product, and something I am very proud of - if that's allowed.

I have already talked at length about the gestation of the book(s), in a previous Earth Blog article: needless to say, I believe it is extremely important for the information, philosophy and practical advice (of which there is a fair bit) to reach the kind of people - of which you are likely to be one - who have the potential to both change themselves and those around them, not to say have a fair crack at changing the fate of the planet as a whole. Time's Up! has the potential to create this kind of change, but it is up to you (and I ask this in the most humble way possible) to get others reading and acting upon these words: your friends, your colleagues, members of your family, people you meet and strike up a conversation with. The word will not spread through marketing or advertising; it will only really spread through people directly communicating with one another, because that is how real change happens.

There are quite a few ways you can get hold of Time's Up!:

1) You can buy it. Lot's of people prefer to read a book rather than a screen, so if you want to buy it then you will be able to find it at almost any online bookstore (although, at the moment, it is only being printed in the UK). Here are a few places I know it is usually in stock:

Green Books
Waterstones
Amazon.co.uk

2) You can ask your library to stock it. This is really important to me, because I think that libraries are some of the last bastions of free thinking in the mind-control industrial system: if your library does not hold it, then please ask them to.

3) You can read it on Google Books. I have just opened it up so you can read the entire book through this medium, which uses the original proofs directly from the publisher; not a word is different. As I have always said: if you believe in something that strongly, strong enough to commit to the page, strong enough to commit a huge chunk of your being to, then why then make people pay for it?

4) Write to me. I am more than happy to answer questions relating to the book; I am willing to write articles about it and take part in interviews, whether in print, in blog, in audio or on video - so long as it means that the messages contained in the book get out there. I can be contacted by emailing keith@theearthblog.org.

Thank you.

Keith Farnish

Writer of The Earth Blog and The Unsuitablog and author of "Time's Up! An Uncivilized Solution To A Global Crisis"
www.timesupbook.com

Hi Keith, I have recently read 'Time's Up' and I must say it has exploded in my mind. I can't get your thoughts out of my head. All the thinking and reading and discussing I have done for years ... trying to work out the answer to those words that so many ordinary people seem to utter with a sense of absolute bewilderment ... 'What's going on ... ?'. Through your book I feel I have gained such a clear view of the whole picture (frightening though it is to behold).
I don't want to make this note too long. I just wanted to thank you for 'Time's Up' and to let you know that it has changed the future for my family ... we have listened and we have understood and we will take care to move forward accordingly . Thank-you for the clarity.

[And thank you, so very much for making me feel special. This has made my week.

Keith]

Keith. I finished the book a few days ago and it is still resonating throughout my mind. I have always sat uncomfortably with Industrial Civilization and have slowly moved through Socialism and conventional green thinking into the area you suggest we need to be in the book. The system will never change from the top down. But many of us, hundreds, thousands and one day many more can start to play our own game and not theirs. Some may say it is dropping out, but I would rather call it playing a walk on part in the war to save a home for our children. I also think that even without the climate change and environmental issues created by Industrial Civilisation, the pursuit of the capitalist dream isn't a good use of our time. Surely we can be much more. For the present I sit inside and have much work to do.:-?

Hi Neil

I have just noticed I forgot to post my thanks for your comment, and also that you are referencing my work on your blog. I love the phrase "But many of us, hundreds, thousands and one day many more can start to play our own game and not theirs." I'm keen to hear how you are getting on, please drop me an email...

Keith