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The GALILEO Syndrome.com
In the very near future the cost of energy will define the economy we live under in a novel way. Energy production will soon be tied to environmental impacts both past and present. Though an apparently slight change it will fundamentally alter our use of this precious commodity. What does this change look like? One of the certain results of climate change is a change in the forces driving our economic system. Energy no longer almost free, will make certain products untenable. It will cost too much energy to manufacture it. Lifestyles will be much different. The ability of the Internet to create commerce will mean that moving bits and bytes will be a more efficient way of conducting business than moving mass. It is likely that there will be significant pressure to remove the need to commute back and forth to work. Shopping by taking the family car for a drive may become a thing of the past. Vacations to certain parts of the world will be impossible because those sights may not exist anymore. "The GALILEO Syndrome" is an attempt to move people forward in their awareness of climate change. It is the first in a trilogy that explores the next step in human consciousness. Environmental Philosopher D.H. Gottlieb calls to us with a brilliance that caresses the mind, and entwines the reader’s soul into feeling the climate and our place in it. It is the echoes of a book that move us. This novel defines a path to a more conductive awareness of self and the environment. The environment being not only the trees and the seas but the place within us that will never cease its symphony. "The GALILEO Syndrome" calls out the scientific and environmental dilemmas we will pass on to future generations, and the evocation that a lack of energy equals a lack of freedom. Our species has come to a time of taking responsibility for ourselves, our families, and those around us. We need to be aware of the changing climate in our natural world, the harsher climate of our society and the alienation that can lead to only one inescapable conclusion; that unless we rise to the challenge we will again slither into the mud of the dark ages only to await another Renaissance. Mankind progressed from a religion-based to a scientific-based view of reality in the early Renaissance. Perhaps this is the next step after science that is viable. The climate doesn’t care if we go forward or backward as a species. Whether we choose to lead or digress … it is up to us.
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