West Coast Bike & Book Tour 2012

Author/Activist Bicycles "In the Service of Gaia"
 
If you've ever watched an anthill in nature long enough, you'll notice that once they've depleted the immediate area of useful goods, the colony will leave and set up home in another place where resources are plentiful. Leaving behind a barren landscape, the species adapts to its consumption patterns by migrating to 'greener pastures.'
 
In his second book, In the Service of Gaia: Trials to Trails, author George W. Drake proposes the same for humans. Believing we are past the tipping point of sustainable living on the Earth he posits that we should migrate to another planet, and is planning to bicycle from San Francisco to San Diego to raise consciousness of his ideas and vision.
 
Drake's fear reaches beyond humanity's survival, though, as he embraces the Gaia theory, the planet being a single, vast, self-regulating organism. He sees humanity's current consumption patterns as a cancer--voraciously consuming at an unsustainable rate--now jeopardizing the very survival of Gaia herself.
 
Can consciousness halt the path of destruction in time? Can awareness penetrate the anthropocentric view--the cancer--to include the whole organism? Can cancer control itself and not kill its host? "Whether humanity survives is the least of our worries," asserts Drake, "It's whether life in any form can survive what we continue to unleash."
 
In this controversial inquiry, author (In the Service of Gaia: The Call), educator, mathematician and activist Drake urges us to quickly move beyond our anthropocentric view. “So long as the focus remains firmly on saving humankind, we’re actually rooting for the cancer, not the host,” he contends.
 
In spite of his personal struggle with physically debilitating multiple sclerosis, Drake's book release tour includes bicycling from San Francisco to San Diego, tenatively scheduled for late spring/early summer, in an effort to raise consciousness to the reality of the fragile condition of the planet and our need to migrate to another planet before we've expended the valuable resources needed to do so.
 
He is currently scheduling speaking and book signing engagements with bookstores, radio stations and other news media, spiritual and other community groups along the route. He welcomes inquiries for call-in or in-studio interviews. For more information on Drake and his vision, a map of his ride and calendar of speaking engagements, visit www.intheserviceofgaia.com. For direct bookings email bookreleasetour@intheserviceofgaia.com or call 707-350-1719. 

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