How Soon Is Now?

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface by Sting

Introduction by Russell Brand

Part One Planetary Initiation

1 Burning Down the House

Revolution for the Hell of It ; System Change ; Climate Chaos ; Sandy ; Riding High ; The Day of the Dead ; What Happens Next? ; Psi ; Prophecy ; Rebellion and the Sacred

2 Ecstatic Contact with the Cosmos

A Coll10_9781ective Rite of Passage ; The Prefrontal Cortex ; My Journey ; Biocentrism ; Sex and Drugs ; Global Reboot ; Competition to Cooperation ; The Noosphere

Part Two Hard Limits

3 Earth Changes

Dread or Detachment? ; Planetary Boundaries ; Biodiversity ; Global Warming ; Feedback Loops ; Arctic Methane ; Who Do We Blame? ; Nitrogen ; Land Use ; Fresh Water ; Ocean Acidification ; Environmental Toxins ; Aerosol Pollution ; What Do We Do?

Part Three Regenerative Solutions

How Do We Transition? ; Deep Decarbonization ; The Solar Singularity ; The Internet of Energy ; Algae-based Fuel ; Nuclear Power; Cold Fusion, Zero Point ; Making the Energy Transition

Meat ; What Can We Do? ; High- and Low-tech Innovation ; Genetic Engineering ; Transforming the Food System

Corporations ; Innovation or Transformation? ; The Story of Stuff ; What Do We Do? ; Inventing the Future ; Eco-cities ; Water and Waste ; Industrial Design and Aesthetics ; Summing Up

Part Four God, Love and Revolution

7 Mythology

The Elder Brother ; The Spiritual Worlds ; The Cosmic Illusion ; Technology Is Consciousness

Sexuality Is a Superpower ; Sex at Dawn ; Eros Unredeemed ; A Healing Biotope ; Communion

9 Rebellion

Occupy ; Reform or Revolution? ; Democracy and Anarchy ; Spontaneous Evolution ; Occult Conspiracy ; Pronoia

10 Revolution

The Promise of Politics ; Crisis Is Opportunity ; Revolution2.0 ; The Venus Project ; Permanent Revolution ; Manufactured Mind

Part Five Post-Capitalism: Property, Money and Power

11 Possession Trance

The Problem with Property ; What Do We Do? ; Stewardship and Usufruct

12 The Money Problem

What’s Wrong with Money? ; Masters of the Universe ; Money Is a Design Problem ; Reformist Approaches ; Systemic Change ; What’s After Money?

13 Power and Leadership

Wisdom Revolution ; Revolt of the Masses ; Two Forms of Power ; Liquid Democracy

Epilogue Conclusion and Action Plan

Conclusion What Do We Do Now?

Unify ; Social Networks ; Ecological Conversion ; We Are the Super-organism ; Festival Earth ; The Outer Reaches of Inner Space

Further Reading