You're driving to the storewhen you notice a small woodedarea on the side of the road. One month later, the forest hasbeen clear-cut. Six months later, the first stage of an apartment building is rising from the ground. One year later, you forget the forest even existed.
Human time is out of sync with Earth time.
The first part of the book critiques what is blinding us to the real crises we face, while the rest of the book looks at specific issues to try to trigger recognition of the need for change. Suzuki, who lives in Vancouver and Toronto, asks questions about consumerism, population and pollution as we approach the millennium. We're killing the very life support of Earth. The economy, that doesn't create everything, it's nature. Since Monday, he has been signing books in London, Kitchener, Guelph and Cambridge.