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<h1>Time’s Up!</h1>
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<p><em>Let’s start at the end.</em></p>
<p><em>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. </em></p>
<p><em>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. </em></p>
<p><em>The third ending is one you get to choose. There is a chance
that we might survive.</em></p>
<blockquote>
<p>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.</p>
<p>John Zerzan</p>
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<p><strong>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”.</strong></p>
<p>If you want to preview Time’s Up! you can read every page on <a
href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s1s62h2B-JUC">Google
Books</a></p>
<p>Click here for <a
href="https://underminers.org/times-up/a-matter-of-scale/">A
Matter Of Scale</a>, the free online version.</p>
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<h4>Praise for Time’s Up!</h4>
<p><em>“Keith Farnish has it right: time has practically run out,
and the ‘system’ is the problem”<br>
Professor James Hansen, Columbia University</em></p>
<p><em>“An amazing book.”<br>
Carolyn Baker, Speaking Truth to Power</em></p>
<p><em>“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.”<br>
Jon Hughes, Fourth World Review</em></p>
<p><em>“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.”</em><br>
<em> Polly Cook, The Ecologist</em></p>
<p>Read “<a
href="http://www.farnish.plus.com/amatterofscale/timesupconnection.pdf">In
My Own Words: A Terminal Lack Of Connection</a>” (PDF download)</p>
<p>Interview on The John Batchelor Show: listen or download via <a
href="http://www.archive.org/download/JohnBatchelor-KeithFarnishInterview/johnbatchelorshow_060210b.mp3">this
link</a> (via archive.org)</p>
<p>Interview on Radio Ecoshock: listen or download via <a
href="http://www.archive.org/download/KeithFarnishTimesUp/ES_Farnish.mp3">this
link</a> (via archive.org)</p>
<p>Interview on BBC Radio Essex: listen or download via <a
href="http://www.archive.org/download/BbcRadioEssex-KeithFarnishInterview/bbcessex_timesupchat_240309.mp3">this
link</a> (via archive.org)</p>
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<p><b><i><span style="font-size:large;">A Note For Concerned Readers</span></i></b></p>
<p>After reading <i>Time’s Up!</i> (and <i>A Matter Of Scale</i>)
a number of people have contacted me asking for more information
about what they should do next. Recently a correspondent wrote:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><i>“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).”</i></p>
</blockquote>
<p>It was a really thoughtful note, and I really sympathise, but
while I can help talk people through problems, I cannot tell <i>anyone</i>
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 <i>Time’s Up!</i></p>
<p>For a list of these articles, follow the link to the <a
href="https://underminers.org/times-up/further-reading/"><b>A
Matter Of Scale : Appendices</b></a> page. I will keep this
updated as more articles are written.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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