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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
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by Thom Hartmann, Joseph Chilton Pearce, and Neale Donald Walsch
Sales Rank: 16310
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Cover Type: Paperback with 400 pages
Published by: Three Rivers Press; Rev Upd Su edition April 27, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1400051576
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1400051571
Book Dimensions:
7.9 x 5.1 x 1 inches
Weighs: 10.4 ounces
Product Description
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 political activism and its effect on corporate behavior, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight helps us understand--and heal--our relationship to the world, to each other, and to our natural resources.
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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 political activism and its effect on corporate behavior, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight helps us understand--and heal--our relationship to the world, to each other, and to our natural resources.
Reader Reviews
This is a nearly flawless achievement of creative nonfiction. Hartmann addresses some of the most complex and important issues of human and worldly culture with crisp, enjoyable language. Thom Hartmann deserves to be recognized as a philosopher because of his clarity of thought and the quality of his observations and arguments. The various topics are diverse but interrelated. It's difficult to perfectly summarize the contents of thie book, but Hartmann addresses each aspect of life with a sad wisdom and a hopeful optimism. He addresses anthropocentrism: the tendency humans have to view the rest of the world as valuable only if is can be used or appreciated by people. This type of thinking has been instrumental in our gradual and steady distance from nature in many ways. Hartmann explains why distance from nature is detrimental to the health of the planet, to our bodies and our psychological well-being. Specifically, Hartmann opens up a relatively unnoticed world of history, in the tradition of Howard Zinn, Derrick Jensen (A Language Older Than Words) and Daniel Quinn (Ishmael). His candor is needed, and his analysis of history and contemporary culture is at once astonishing, necessary and intriguing. Chapter after chapter his words, ideas and citations challenge you to think, to wonder and reconsider human behavior and lies. He has borrowed some ideas from the aforementioned authors and put them to good use. He is a better writer than Daniel Quinn, who delivers a choppy, amateurish prose in spite of his good intentions. Hartman better converys his ideas, so if you're one of the millions of fans of Ishmael, I guarantee you'll want to buy or rent this book. The title phrase refers to the fact that the earth's energy and its organisms' lifeforces are fueled by sunlight in some form or another(fossil fuels being ancient sunlight), but this treatise on the history of human culture is infinitely more than a polemic against the oil industry. It's an exploration of the mistakes that have been made (slavery, deforestation, human and animal exploitation, corruption) and it's a cogent and admirable plea to change the way our political and social leaders govern the world. It's about the cultural stories that pervade our lives, the religions, the assumptions that people should have dominion over the earth's resources and even over other humans. Covered are such issues as global warming, famine,war, misogyny, art, religiosity, aboriginal lifestyles, agriculture, social opiates (narcotics, alcohol, television, "news", antidepressants, etc). What truly impressed me about this book was Hartmann's ability to convey his opinions without seeming arrogant or frantic, despite that he is well-educated and obviously concerned. He reminds us how powerful language can be, how it relates to collective memory of historical events and how important it can be to change, even if that evolution is painful or challenging. I consider this to be an important history text, although his solutions to the problems seem lackluster. What I mean by this is that he correctly identifies human thought (and subsequently human culture) as the culprit. In order to cease the desire for exploitation of other people and of land, it's necessary to do some serious revision in the way we view our relationship with the earth. So, no, you won't find a checklist of 50 quick things you can do to improve the world; it isn't that simple. Quite frankly, that's what is frustrating about this book and Daniel Quinn's books-- they identify problems clearly, but they know that the solutions are very very difficult and involved. Read this book with an open mind, and I suspect it will motivate you to change the way you view some aspects of contemporary Western civilization.
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