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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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Thom Hartman make an impressive and extraordinary approach to discover and implement sustainable solutions for our exploited and depleted Earth. A hope for future generations.

Thom Hartmann's "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight" is extremely important and cogent, and needs to be read and absorbed by many to ensure the possibility of a future for the human race and all other life on Earth. Divided into three main parts, this book explains in detail where we are, how and why we got here, and what we can do for a brighter future. Very practical, well-researched, comprehensive. I am not aware of a better book on the issues, especially since it not only sets out the realities of our situation (dependence on dwindling oil and clean-water supplies, destruction of forests and plant/animal species, unsustainable population growth, frequent wars, third-world and first-world impoverishment, etc.), but also explains why, fundamentally, human civilization has gotten us into this mess (tracing the causes back thousands of years to the basis of civilization and comparing the recent city-state or nation-state lifestyle to that of the much older tribe), and what we can possibly do to change our course and save our children and their children and the planet they will inherit.

I would give a more detailed or articulate description, but I lent my copy out the day I finished reading it, and several people are already waiting in line to borrow it. If there is a book to buy multiple copies of and give away, this is the best one I have found. Do not let it sit on the bookshelf indefinitely - after you read it, pass it around, from one person to another, making sure it never stays the same place, unread, for long. If you must keep a copy for your own reference, at least buy a second one to pass around to your friends.

All of Thom's predictions of our present time involving corporatism to political movements to warnings of the coming days of food and clean water shortages can be found in this book! THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ FOR EVERYONE, WHETHER YOU ARE ACTIVELY POLITICAL OR NOT!

This book is a great educational tool and gives very adequate information about the state of our planet. A global shift of consciousness is needed, it's not about Doing it's about BEING with our environment. Drop survival of the fittest and uphold we the living of the earth, it's tough challenge but it's worth it