Asking for the Earth

James George

Ask­ing for the Earth was first released in 1995 after the author led the inter­na­tional mis­sion to Kuwait to assess dam­ages from Oper­a­tion Desert Storm. This book is even more timely today as we face the pos­si­bil­ity of fur­ther war­fare and destruc­tion. James George presents the con­vinc­ing argu­ment that our planet is suf­fer­ing from twin crises, eco­log­i­cal and spir­i­tual, with a com­mon source in our deep sep­a­ra­tion from nature and from each other. Inspired by the teach­ings of Gur­d­ji­eff, Thomas Mer­ton, Tibetan Bud­dhism, and other con­tem­pla­tive tra­di­tions, the author shows that to avoid dis­as­ter we must wed sci­en­tific truth to an awak­en­ing of con­scious­ness and accep­tance of responsibility.

Pref­ace by His Holi­ness the Dalai Lama; fore­word by the Sec­re­tary Gen­eral of the United Nations con­fer­ence on Envi­ron­ment and Devel­op­ment (the “Earth Sum­mit”) in Rio de Janeiro, 1992.