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Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated Third Edition The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late

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ISBN-10: 1400051576

ISBN-13: 9781400051571

Edition: 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch

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While everything appears to be collapsing around us -- ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars -- we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio’s web movie Global Warning, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture’s blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem. Thom Hartmann’s comprehensive book, originally published in 1998, has become one of the fundamental handbooks of the environmental activist movement. Now, with fresh, updated material and a focus on…    
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Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Publication date: 4/27/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.21" wide x 7.95" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Thom Hartmann is a progressive talk-show host whose radio and television shows are available in over a half-billion homes. He's a four-time Project Censored award winner and a New York Times bestselling author of twenty-four books, most recently, The Crash of 2016.

Neale Donald Walsch and his wife formed the Conversations with God Foundation, a nonprofit organization offering programs in personal growth and spiritual understanding, with the state mission of helping the world to help itself. He lives in Ashland, Oregon.

Foreword
Introduction
We're running out of ancient sunlight
We're made out of sunlight
How can things look so good yet be so bad?
Slavery and freedom
Glimpsing a possible future in Haiti and other hot spots
The death of the trees
Extinctions : diversity supports survival
Climate changes
A visit to a country that's planning how to survive : China
The last hours of (cheap, clean) water
Deforesting, fighting for fuel, and the rise and fall of empires
Younger and older cultures : how did we get here?
The power of our point of view : older and younger cultures
Younger culture drugs of control
Younger culture stories about how things are
What we need to remember
The lives of ancient people
Power vs. cooperation in social structure : the city-state vs. tribes
The robots take over
But what about Darwin? Isn't the victor right?
What can we do about it?
The new science
New stories are necessary to change the world
Touching the sacred
Learn to create awareness
Lessons from a monk
Re-empower women
The secret of "enough"
Respect other cultures and communities
Renounce the destruction of life
Look into the face of God
Change the focus of how we use technology
Turn off the TV
The modern-day tribe : intentional community
Reinventing our daily life and rituals
Transforming culture through politics
Taking back America
Something will save us
We have much to learn ... and even more to remember
Afterword
Notes
Recommended reading
Acknowledgments
Index