The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
Thom Hartmann
Language: English
Pages: 400
ISBN: 1400051576
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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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Forest. The Taino “Indians” who lived there had an idyllic life prior to Columbus, from the reports left to us by literate members of Columbus’s crew, such as Miguel Cuneo. When Columbus and his crew arrived on their second visit to Hispaniola, however, they took captive about sixteen hundred local villagers who had come out to greet them. Cuneo wrote: “When our ships . . . were to leave for Spain, we gathered . . . one thousand six hundred male and female persons of those Indians, and of these.
Committed mass suicide. The women, exhausted by labor, have shunned conception and childbirth. . . . Many, when pregnant, have taken something to abort and have aborted. Others after delivery have killed their children with their own hands, so as not to leave them in such oppressive slavery.” Eventually, Columbus, and later his brother Bartholomew Columbus, whom he left in charge of the island, simply resorted to wiping out the Taino altogether. Prior to Columbus’s arrival, most scholars place.
The country is now capable of producing only 40 percent of its own food needs. Wood for fuel is being burned almost five times faster than it can regrow, and women spend up to half their waking hours just searching for water. As erosion speeds up and soils become exhausted, the farmers of Burkina Faso have become good customers for the international fertilizer companies, who control a multibillion-dollar annual business. But this is a short-term solution at best, and so the desert has claimed.
Spring, we read reports in the paper about the first recent case of malaria in South Carolina, and as the climate of North America warms, we’ll see it progress northward as it is doing today in other parts of the world. Similarly, according to 1995 research done in the Netherlands and Great Britain, the global warming predicted by the ICCP, would lead to a doubling of malaria-carrying mosquito populations in tropical regions. But the danger is much greater for the temperate climates, the.
Third World. In our inner cities where people are afraid to drive with their doors unlocked or windows down, on our farms where dioxin or PCB-laced waste is spread across food plants as fertilizer, in our hospitals where the primary waste from the manufacture of nuclear weapons (yttrium) is being promoted as an experimental “cure” for cancers (which are caused in large part by the air and food and drugs of our civilization)—in all these places we see that this world we have created can work only.