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The environmental crisis facing humanity encompasses much more than climate change. There are the wider range of private and public problems that individuals and societies are having to navigate through and solve. Social issues such as poverty, gender, racial and economic equality, drug abuse, mental illness, education deficiencies and so much more. What do we tackle first, as though to solve one problem will lessen the effects upon the planet of another? The overarching problem on this planet is its rapidly expanding human population which places demands on the carrying capacity of the earth and its resources. Likewise the institutions humans have devised to balance our behaviors and circumstances with one another are strained and hampered in their abilities to even halfway function effectively. Governments, industries, technologies, religions, universities, and NGOs around the world are all working on the problems caused by a changing climate and its cause and effects by overpopulation yet, they are so internally conflicted that for every positive move forward, humanity seems to be taking steps backward.

To consider any single one of these problems can have a numbing effect on the individual hoping to contribute to their solutions. What can one person do?

Handbook for a Burning Age takes a deep dive into understanding what phrases such as, “To save the planet…nature…the environment” actually mean. The individual who sees their self both in their isolation as well as a part of a collective whole, can become a force for change. We can’t, we won’t sit and wait for the dominant cultures of governments, corporations and industries to do something to heal this planet, to feed humanity and to ensure a freedom and equality of life among all humans. We start with ourselves. We are small enough to see the awe of the universe around us, and large enough to recognize our part within it. We are significant also in using our voice, not as a whimper in the wilderness but loud enough to awaken the hearts and minds of others. This is the time to speak out and to act, before we run out of time. Handbook for a Burning Age is focused on bringing us together for that purpose.

Handbook for a Burning Age reviews an art and literary history of those who’ve gone before, men and women who have stood up in their village to speak out. They have been awakened to an elemental fact of human existence: we are the universe. As Peter Matthiessen said, we are “nature seeing nature.”

Handbook for a Burning Age is about igniting a fire within us all. Before we can change or reverse the climate of the planet, we must first change the climate within our own souls. This book gives a history of how people have been doing this for several centuries. Their aspirations are our inspirations. As the book concludes, this is how we can become One Earth, One Humanity.

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