The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

Posted on 21 February 2018 by Thom Hartmann

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. Download The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight – kino-fada.fr Though updated with statistics and events through 2004, this reads like a prophetic treatise on the collapse of our industrialized culture which is entirely based on fossil fuels, a limited resource No one seems to deny that oil is limited, but 2 narratives determine our actions today Older and younger cultural beliefs Older cultures valued generosity, leisure, and community The younger cultures value productivity, accumulation and individualism He gives many examples to illustrate his poin Though updated with statistics and events through 2004, this reads like a prophetic treatise on the collapse of our industrialized culture which is e...Saw this author in the DVD 11th Hour He discusses the difference between living on current sunlight and ancient sunlight Current sunlight is the energy we are currently receiving each day from the sun to our food source, etc Most of our human history involved living with current sunlight Since the Industrial Revolution, we have used ancient sunlight Ancient sunlight is the energy stored in the earth from fossil fuels, etc Ancient sunlight is not an unlimited resource and has suppor Saw this author in the DVD 11th Hour He discusses the difference between living on current sunlight and ancient sunlight Current sunlight is the energy we are currently receiving each day from the sun to our food source, etc Most of our human history involved living with current sunlight Since the Industrial Revolution, we have used ancient sunlight Ancient sunlight is the energy stored in the earth from fossil fuels, etc Ancient sunlight is not an unlimited resource and has supported a human population explosion He states that by using current sunlight, the earth could support maybe 1 2 to 1 billion people And the increase in our bloated population is conributing to our environmental problems.Here s a Gore vidal quote used in the book Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years either the host dies, or the parasit...As of September 2008 we ve officially entered the end of the oil age Our economic system based on infinite growth has run into the limits of the physical world Now that our social systems must rapidly adapt to a new reality of energy scarcity, we must pay special attention to the humans within those systems Thom Hartmann s Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight is a particularly lucid roadmap ...It was such an amazing book to read This book was required for my AP English summer reading, and when I started it, I immediately thought, Oh, no This is one of those annoying books that the school picked out to torture us For many that I know, this book was exactly that, but for me, it was a wake up call Since California is in such a big drought, I was aware of the problems of insufficient natural resourcea that we are facing worldwide However, it wasn t until reading this book that I rea It was such an amazing book to read This book was required for my AP English summer reading, and when I started it, I immediately thought, Oh, no This is one of those annoying books that the school picked out to torture us For many that I know, this book was exactly that, but for me, it was a wake up call Since California is in such a big drought, I was aware of the problems of insufficient natural resourcea that we are facing worldwide However, it wasn t until ...A very easy to read book yet thought provoking book.Our society is built on teh use of ancient sunlight, we fight wars over it, since it is a limited resource The civilizations before us did the same and in the end collapsed because they forgot something vitally important.the we are part of nature and it is part of us.The...The first third of this book outlines all the problems we ve got going on, on this planet Since this book was published originally in 1998, it covered ground I was pretty familiar with No solutions were offered, though Then, there was a section about culture and then a third section Hartman is fond of Old Way thinking, characterizing modern society as Young Way thinking According to him, primitive cultures had it going on But what to do about the fact that we don t live in primitive cu The first third of this book outlines all the problems we ve got going on, on this planet Since this book was published originally in 1998, it covered ground I was pretty familiar with No solutions were offered, though Then, there was a section about culture and then a third section Hartman is fond of Old Way thinking, characterizing modern society as Young Way thinking According to him, primitive cultures had it going on But what to do about the fact that we don t live in primitive cultures any There are no solutions in this book Near the end, I hit this paragraph which made things clear Missing the point of a book like this is quite easy to do, because the book makes a radical departure from the normal fare of self help and environmentalism It presents the problems, delves into the causes of them, and then presents as a solution something that many may think couldn t possibly be a solution because it seems unfathomably difficult change our cu...I m impressed I read this primarily as a theologian I m fascinated by the notion that original sin could stem from the moment 40.000 years ago when some tribe decided it was imperative to takethan it needed I stumbled into Thom Hartman ...A Thoughtful Search for a Silver Lining amid the Gloomiest StormIt is quite normal to get deceived when you are ignorant, to get distracted when you are not free, and to become desperate when you can see no hope These are the three states which Thom Hartmann challenges in his book, calling for an action by every individual to face a problem that undermines the existence of the whole of humanity It is not yet another book about the environment and the depletion of nature s resources, as it is a A Thoughtful Search for a Silver Lining amid the Gloomiest StormIt is quite normal to get deceived when you are ignorant, to get distracted when you are not free, and to become desperate when you can see no hope These are the three states which Thom Hartmann challenges in his book, calling for an action by every individual to face a problem that undermines the existence of the whole of humanity It is not yet another book about the environment and the depletion of nature s resources, as it i...I was so irritated with certain of the author s premises that I found myself arguing as much as reading But then it is good to read things that you don t agree with it offers the opportunity to learn something new I learned a different way of looking at the Older Cultures that is the tribal cultures I learned a very interesting method of sustainable farming used in theby I think the Kayapo tribe I really give the author credit for realizing that no specific measures can save I wa...The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom HartmannThis book written in 1998 about the state of the environment and our dominant culture is incredibly terrifying in it s accurate predictions of where and on what time table our Earth s resources are running out and what the consequences will be It s accuracy makes the continuing predictions that muchterrifying and poignant reading the book today I recommend this book to anyone who thinks that they can or should simply ignore our hopeless The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom...

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21 February 2018

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