[D66] Time’s Up!
R.O.
jugg at ziggo.nl
Mon Aug 17 22:25:49 CEST 2020
https://underminers.org/times-up/
Time’s Up!
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/Let’s start at the end./
/The first ending has happened before. Vast groups of humans, all taking
part in a single, complex system, thrive for a short while; they take
what they want until there is nothing left to take, and the system
collapses. This has happened time and time again in the fruitless rise
and fall of human ambition. The greatest of these civilizations is the
one we are living in now. The end is when it falls, and the fall is
coming soon. With this ending, we stand little chance of survival. /
/The second ending is something we’re becoming sadly familiar with: the
one in which the ice caps melt, the forests disappear, the oceans rise
and countless species wake for the last time before leaving the Earth
forever. This is an environmental catastrophe. We can bat it away, think
it has little to do with us and carry on as before. But the environment
is not another place: it is what we depend on for our survival, and we
are part of it, whatever anyone might say. An ‘environmental’
catastrophe is a human catastrophe. With this ending, we also stand
little chance of survival. /
/The third ending is one you get to choose. There is a chance that we
might survive./
I think we are beginning to see mounting awareness of the gravity
and scope of the crisis afflicting life on earth. Keith’s “Time’s
Up” is a huge contribution to understanding the extremity of our
situation and providing ideas for facing up to ending a
fundamentally false and devouring technoculture.
John Zerzan
*Time’s Up! is the published version of A Matter of Scale, and is
available across the world from major retailers, online stores and all
independent bookshops. Just search for “Keith Farnish”.*
If you want to preview Time’s Up! you can read every page on Google
Books <http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s1s62h2B-JUC>
Click here for A Matter Of Scale
<https://underminers.org/times-up/a-matter-of-scale/>, the free online
version.
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Praise for Time’s Up!
/“Keith Farnish has it right: time has practically run out, and the
‘system’ is the problem”
Professor James Hansen, Columbia University/
/“An amazing book.”
Carolyn Baker, Speaking Truth to Power/
/“I have read no clearer exposition of the interconnectivity of life.
Nor have I come across a more reasoned explanation for our selfishness.
If you read it, and I exhort you to read it, you will see that there is
no other solution but the wholesale deconstruction of industrial society.”
Jon Hughes, Fourth World Review/
/“Farnish gives us the knowledge, the inspiration and the empowerment to
pull together and start this fight, even if we can’t all be like him –
we can and we have to do something.”/
/Polly Cook, The Ecologist/
Read “In My Own Words: A Terminal Lack Of Connection
<http://www.farnish.plus.com/amatterofscale/timesupconnection.pdf>” (PDF
download)
Interview on The John Batchelor Show: listen or download via this link
<http://www.archive.org/download/JohnBatchelor-KeithFarnishInterview/johnbatchelorshow_060210b.mp3>
(via archive.org)
Interview on Radio Ecoshock: listen or download via this link
<http://www.archive.org/download/KeithFarnishTimesUp/ES_Farnish.mp3>
(via archive.org)
Interview on BBC Radio Essex: listen or download via this link
<http://www.archive.org/download/BbcRadioEssex-KeithFarnishInterview/bbcessex_timesupchat_240309.mp3>
(via archive.org)
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*/A Note For Concerned Readers/*
After reading /Time’s Up!/ (and /A Matter Of Scale/) a number of people
have contacted me asking for more information about what they should do
next. Recently a correspondent wrote:
/“So even though I have been reading Dmitry Orlov, John Michael
Greer, Sharon Astyk, Ran Prieur, and others for some time, your book
really freaked me out. Aside from the convincing finality of your
arguments (and your book seems extremely well-researched and
well-annotated), I feel kind of paralyzed into inaction (think deer
in headlights).”/
It was a really thoughtful note, and I really sympathise, but while I
can help talk people through problems, I cannot tell /anyone/ exactly
what to do next, given how important it is to move away from the “one
size fits all” approach. However, I have written a number of articles
related to some of the more difficult subjects contained in the book,
with some of the more recent ones consciously being “appendices” to
/Time’s Up!/
For a list of these articles, follow the link to the *A Matter Of Scale
: Appendices* <https://underminers.org/times-up/further-reading/> page.
I will keep this updated as more articles are written.
The essential follow-up to Time’s Up! which was written in response to
this and my own concern over a lack of an adequate reference guide is
UNDERMINERS, which forms the main part of this website.
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