The Gaia Conspiracy:

About the Book

The GaiaConspiracy: The Last Days of Homo rapiens is a narrative about an eclectic group of Americans on a canoe trip on the Yukon River with a guide who is a self-taught renaissance man whose mission in life is to educate his charges about the true realities of life on this little oasis in space, a counterpoint to the propaganda of the corporate media leading us into holocausts on all fronts. The adventure changes their lives, their perceptions of their country, their vision of the future, and leads them to realize that business-as-usual, playing the game within a corrupt system dominated by greed and lust for power, can only end in our last hour on this stage, and they determine to make an effort to reverse our rush into the abyss, knowing that apathy, ignorance and denial are powerful forces working against them.

About the Author

The author grew up in northern New Jersey with early memories of the Great Depression and the three baseball teams in nearby New York. He and his brothers sometimes attended Yankee games, and among his first heroes were Ruth and Gehrig. Livingston was then a small town, and summers were endless adventures in the woods and streams, and on the local diamond, where pick-up games were played in jeans and sneakers, and later there were town league games in the years of DiMaggio and Williams. Scouting led to an interest in biology and environmentalism.  He had a love of running, and began distance running at an early age. He was once picked up by the police during a snowy December loop around town when a woman reported a man jogging down the road in his underwear, probably an escapee from a nearby mental hospital. He went to college in New Hampshire, majored in pre-med, spent a year in graduate school and two years in the army, and then medical school in Chapel Hill. He had a long career in Pathology at a community hospital in northern Virginia, and during those years ran seven Boston Marathons and later nine 50-mile trail runs with the younger of his two daughters. Two knee replacements at ages 70 and 71 channeled his efforts into tennis and bicycling, and he is reputed to be the oldest man to complete the 218 mile Virginia section of the Blue Ridge Parkway, along with his college cross-country teammate Tom  Ritner.He is a past board member of The Nature Conservancy in Virginia, past chairman of Common Cause/Virginia, and a past national board member of Physicians For Social Responsibility. He resides in the mountains of western North Carolina.