Recommended and reviewed in The Mindquest Review of Books April 2009 TAKE BACK THE EARTH The Dumb, Greedy Incompetents Have Trashed It Subject: The striking book is dedicated to "...areas where corporations...government have polluted the land, water, and air and caused sickness and death..." The book is a call to aware the citizens of earth to help convince governement, business, and individuals to consider en- vironmental impacts before acting or using a product. Noteworthy: Starting in the beginning, the author traces the greed of bankers, industrialists, politicians, and others who have poisoned the health of this planet and people. True stories are sa- gaciously related from the Man- hattan Project to the current times, about acts likely deadly to the planet and its inhabitants. A must read for any thinking, concerned person.	published September 2008 free download Take Back the Earth a finalist in the Indie Excellence 2007 Book Awards, may be Swiatek’s most important book. Wise men have stated that the earth does not belong to us. Yet, governments and corporations have acted as though there were no end to the resources of the land or in the oceans. Over the last half century, our planet has been besieged by the disasters of Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Bhopal, Love Canal, the Exxon Valdez, Katrina and the list seems to never end. Unless we take action now, we’ll have no place to live. Fortunately, we have the ingenuity to come up with solutions and Take Back the Earth. preview press release The Sierra Club Buffalo Niagara Chapter
Swiatek Press xxISBN: 0-9817843-1-3 xxx$12.95

An ideal choice for readers concerned about the environment,
February 6, 2009 - Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
No host would have someone who exploited, littered, and destroyed their homes, yet humanity
continues to trash the earth. Take Back the Earth: The Dumb, Greedy Incompetents
Have Trashed It is the winner of the 2007 Indie Excellence Book award, and Swiatek
demonstrates why. Explaining with humor and enlightenment the environmental issues we face
today, "Take Back the Earth" is an ideal choice for readers concerned about the environment.

Ann Aurelio, Long Island
"This book is not only fast reading and interesting, but it is extremely enlightening of how careless
we have been with the health of the planet and the health of mankind. I highly recommend reading
this book. It's a real eye opener. It's quite obvious that a lot of research went into writing this book."


Michelina C., Long Island
"This book is a must read. I am 88 years old and more concerned about the environment then most
people years younger. The author shocked me with some of the information in his book, that I was
not aware of. I found so much information in one place a bit disconcerting. Bob Swiatek put a great
deal of time in bringing this book to print. I’m glad he cares enough about the planet to do so.”






Adam Zyglis / Buffalo News - email azyglis@buffnews.com

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Strategic Ignorance Carl Pope & Paul Rauber		Silent Spring Rachel Carson		The Secret History of the War on Cancer Devra Davis		Poisoned Nation Loretta-Schwartz Nobel		Love Canal: The Story Continues Lois Marie Gibbs

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This award winning 2008 documentary tells of the struggle of ordinary people throughout the world in their quest for the one thing that no one can live without: water. Flow: For Love of Water points out the corporations who control the supply of clean water - available to anyone who can pay for it. At the same time, they are the reason why the water is not safe to drink. You will be outraged, but hopeful because of the people who stood up for what is right. There is no doubt that we can change the behavior of both the corporations and governments by working together. Join Waterkeeper or The Sierra Club. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxFLOWTHEFILM.COM

A trilogy of films that deal with the environment as well as technology, produced over a period of 20 years by Godfrey Reggio
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Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi word meaning life out of balance or crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, a state of life that calls for another way of living.		Powaqqatsi is a Hopi word meaning life in transition. More specifically, it treats of the wonders of technology in which people give their lives so that others can live.		Naqoyqatsa is a Hopi word meaning "life as war". The film focuses on society's transition from a natural environment to a technology-based industrial environment.
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		Wriiten ten years before the first of the three films above came out, Lame Deer Seeker of Visions is so prophetic and more connected that you might think. John (Fire) Lame Deer, a Sioux medicine man of great wisdom, was born over a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Richard Erdoes became his friend and collaberated on the book, which I can't recommend enough. If more people had read this treatise at the time of publication in 1972, there may have been no need for the trilogy by Godfrey Reggio. I'm sure he would have found other material for movies. Betraying the people who were first on the land here, the government not only stole their land, they also wound up polluting it as well as murdering the Lakota, Hopi, Sioux and every other nation of early Americans. Lame Deer advised us to stay connected with family - something that we have lost - and not be so dependent on technology, which today has overwhelmed us. In not so many words, he also foretold of the destruction of the earth.