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Mon May 5, 2014, 07:21 PM May 2014

BOOKS: Wellsprings -- A Fable of Consciousness | William T. Hathaway



Climate Change Requires Consciousness Change

William T. Hathaway -- World News Trust

May 5, 2014

To paraphrase Mark Twain, everyone talks about climate change but no one does anything about it. No one, particularly those in power, wants to make the necessary sacrifices.

The latest round of international negotiations served mainly to postpone decisions and action. The Japanese government announced that their CO2 emissions would be increasing rather than decreasing as promised. The U.S. government still refuses to comply with international environmental agreements.

Clearly we need a global reordering of priorities, away from short-term economic gain and towards long-term sustainability. But we've known this for decades, and the problem continues to worsen although scientists insist we could solve it if we had the will. Generating the will to make these changes, both in our personal lives and in the economic structures we are caught in, is going to require a change of consciousness.

My new book, Wellsprings: A Fable of Consciousness, approaches ecology from that dimension. The novel is set in 2026 as the earth's ecosystem has broken down under human abuse. Water supplies are shrinking. Rain is rare, and North America is gripped in the Great Drought with crops withering and forests dying. In the midst of environmental and social collapse, an old woman and a young man set out to heal nature and reactivate the cycle of flow by using techniques of higher consciousness. But the corporations that control the remaining water lash out to stop them.

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