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Carlita Shaw
The environmental crisis is a crisis of human consciousness
by Carlita Shaw
The Silent Ecocide Redux (2026 Revised Edition)
Humanity’s Environmental Crisis Is a Crisis of Consciousness
A decade after the release of The Silent Ecocide (2015), author and environmental journalist Carlita Shaw returns with a powerful and expanded revision exploring the accelerating ecological collapse of our world, the politically manipulated greenwashing of environmental issues, and controversial solutions rarely discussed in mainstream environmental discourse.
More than an environmental book, *The Silent Ecocide Redux* is a standalone investigation comparing research and data from 2015 to 2024, revealing the shocking speed at which species extinction and habitat destruction have intensified in less than a decade.
Blending investigative journalism, scientific research, Indigenous wisdom, and firsthand experiences from the Ecuadorian Amazon, Shaw explores the spiritual, technological, political, and ecological crises shaping humanity’s future. Addressing subjects many scientists avoid for fear of professional backlash, this updated edition reveals how the destruction of nature is inseparable from the erosion of human consciousness itself.
The Silent Ecocide Redux (2026 Revised Edition)
The Environmental Crisis Is a Crisis of Consciousness
First published in 2015, The Silent Ecocide explored the unfolding destruction of the natural world and questioned the deeper forces driving humanity’s ecological crisis. Now, over a decade later, environmental writer and rainforest conservationist Carlita Shaw returns with a fully revised and expanded edition that confronts the accelerating collapse of ecosystems, the rise of technocracy, and the growing disconnection between humanity and Nature.
The Silent Ecocide Redux ( 2026 edition) combines investigative journalism, environmental science, Indigenous perspectives, philosophy, and suppressed ecological research to examine some of the most urgent and controversial issues of our time. Through updated scientific comparisons between 2015 and 2026, the book reveals the alarming speed of species extinction, habitat degradation, and ecological destabilization occurring within less than a decade.
Journeying through topics including geoengineering, carbon trading, oil politics in the Amazon, alternative energy, water scarcity, technocratic control, mental health, and humanity’s spiritual disconnection from the natural world, Shaw explores how environmental collapse is inseparable from a wider crisis of human consciousness.
This updated edition preserves rare interview transcripts with free energy inventors and researchers whose work remains marginalized or suppressed, while introducing new chapters examining artificial intelligence, resource depletion, synthetic biology, and the hidden environmental costs of emerging technologies.
Drawing from firsthand experiences living with the Shiwiar people in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the book also explores the ancient history of the rainforest, Indigenous stewardship, and the ongoing struggle to defend one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth from industrial exploitation and economic collapse.
Part ecological investigation, part philosophical reflection, and part call to awakening, The Silent Ecocide Redux challenges readers to reconsider humanity’s relationship with technology, consciousness, economics, and the living Earth itself.
In a world increasingly shaped by environmental decline, technological acceleration, and spiritual disconnection, this book asks a vital question:
What kind of future are we creating — and can humanity still change course before it is too late?
“The book "The Silent Ecocide" captures incredibly the truth about human greed, which has made us exceed the planetary boundaries. The data in the book plus two decades of the writers experience in ecology is a revelation for the ultimate awakening of human consciousness. The wonders of nature are traded by the corrupt forces of market...mainly the investors...who have no right to it. Human beings who have the smallest place in coexistence have pretended for too long to be above all. This ego has separated humanity from all forms of lives. Transformation of human consciousness becomes urgent for the survival of all forms of life and for intergenerational equity......... Thank you and all the best for this wonderful book of yours. May human beings soon realize their follies before it is too late. ”
Dr. Saamdu Chetri Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences Private university in Himachal Pradesh, India-Director of the Yogananda School of Spirituality and Happiness at Shoolini University.
“'Carlita Shaw's The Silent Ecocide is a brave call that challenges humanity to stand up and take responsibility for our future on Planet Earth. It is a book to make each of us aware that the ecological crisis in the world today is not a simple black & white picture - it is a much broader canvas that involves our relationships to energy, economics, politics, human resources, and ultimately to our very selves. Shaw does not hold back in pointing out our human frailties and failings; yet in the end there is hope, if we can rise to the responsibility of being conscious agents of change. As Shaw says, "Saving the world and humanity is now an inside job." I couldn't agree more. The ecocide on planet Earth can no longer remain in silence. This book is a clear and loud voice on the planet's behalf - and we should listen. ”
Kingsley L. Dennis Ph.D Author and Researcher,
“ Carlita’s devotion to preserving natural landscapes and indigenous cultures is unyielding. It’s rare to see such loving commitment actually embodied in real life; not just in hopeful words, but in resolute actions every day. Thank heavens there are people like Carlita tackling this head on, working on the front lines, speaking the truth.”
Neil Kramer, Philosopher & Author
Conservationist, Ecological researcher, author, and Amazon rainforest advocate exploring the intersection of consciousness and planetary survival.
Carlita Shaw is an environmental writer, ecological researcher, and Amazon rainforest advocate with over 26 years of experience in conservation, Indigenous collaboration, and frontline environmental work across Latin America and Europe. With a background in Environmental Science and Wildlife Conservation, her work bridges ecology, consciousness, mental health, Indigenous wisdom, and planetary healing. She has worked hands-on in the Ecuadorian Amazon as a project developer, educator, and conservationist, collaborating with Indigenous communities on biodiversity conservation, ecological economy models, and rainforest protection initiatives. Her writing combines investigative journalism, environmental science, activism, philosophy, and personal storytelling, exploring the deep relationship between human consciousness and the living Earth. Carlita is the author of four books including The Silent Ecocide and The Silent Ecocide Redux, works examining environmental collapse, technocracy, species extinction, and the spiritual disconnection driving humanity’s ecological crisis. Alongside her environmental advocacy, she also integrates ecopsychology, hypnotherapy, and holistic healing perspectives into her work, drawing from decades of personal experience, resilience, and frontline activism.
An Ecological Perspective
A deeply personal and thought-provoking exploration of depression, trauma, healing, and humanity’s disconnection from Nature, Surviving Depression in a Depressing World approaches mental health through an ecological lens rarely discussed in mainstream psychology. Blending personal memoir, environmental insight, spirituality, and holistic perspectives, Carlita Shaw examines how modern society, environmental degradation, technology, and emotional disconnection contribute to the growing global crisis of depression.
The environmental crisis is a crisis of human consciousness
Written in 2015, during one of the most fragile and transformative moments of her life just before critical surgery, The Silent Ecocide: The Environmental Crisis is a Crisis of Human Consciousness is Carlita Shaw’s urgent and deeply personal call to awaken before humanity crosses irreversible ecological thresholds. Facing a life-threatening operation, Shaw felt compelled to pour years of ecological research, frontline conservation experience, spiritual reflection, and hard-earned insight into a book that confronts the destruction unfolding across Earth’s ecosystems — and within the human psyche itself.
Blending environmental science, deep ecology, Indigenous wisdom, political critique, biodiversity loss, alternative energy, and the inner dimensions of healing and consciousness, this book argues that the environmental crisis cannot be solved through technology or policy alone. At its root lies a profound disconnection between humanity and the living world.
From the devastation of the Amazon rainforest and mass species extinction to corruption, consumerism, ecological collapse, and the forgotten relationship between human consciousness and nature, Shaw explores the intertwined crises shaping our age while offering a vision for ecological and spiritual renewal.
At once fierce, poetic, controversial, and hopeful, The Silent Ecocide is both a warning and an invitation: to remember that we are not separate from nature, and that healing the Earth begins with healing ourselves.