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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.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I hope you will forgive me submitting a very brief and partial review at this stage.
I have read the 1999 edition (published in the UK in 2001) and was very impressed, and not a little shaken, by the author's view of where we are heading.
This is a "Revised and Updated" edition, which I have not read. I have viewed a number of the reviews on Amazon.com by readers in the USA, and they are mostly supportive of the book. But I didn't find any details concerning what's new in this edition. Is it just changes in figures and percentages?
Before I fork out for this edition (and I was impressed enough with the first one to want to buy this one) can anyone tell me if there are any substantive changes here?
By the way, I am giving it 5 stars based on the quality of the earlier edition, and on the assumption that this edition is of at least equal merit. I hope that is considered fair.
I have read the 1999 edition (published in the UK in 2001) and was very impressed, and not a little shaken, by the author's view of where we are heading.
This is a "Revised and Updated" edition, which I have not read. I have viewed a number of the reviews on Amazon.com by readers in the USA, and they are mostly supportive of the book. But I didn't find any details concerning what's new in this edition. Is it just changes in figures and percentages?
Before I fork out for this edition (and I was impressed enough with the first one to want to buy this one) can anyone tell me if there are any substantive changes here?
By the way, I am giving it 5 stars based on the quality of the earlier edition, and on the assumption that this edition is of at least equal merit. I hope that is considered fair.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has had a profound inpact on the way in which I think about the world and where we are heading. Thom Hartmann is on an incredible life journey and wants to wake us all up to our possibilities and potentia. If we do nothing then we are heading for a catastrophy of massive proportions, yet he shows us that there is hope for us if we can simply open our eyes, our ears and our hearts. I can not recommend this book highly enough.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This is the first book by this author that I have read. It is an extremely thought provoking and eye opening read. Although most of the stats. etc are American this does not detract for the British reader - the principles and implications are worldwide.
The first part of the book is an excellent introduction to why the world is in the state it is currently and how we got here. The author makes comparisons between our current way of living 'young culture' and 'ancient culture' what we would call today primitive or tribal living. He makes the case for a sustainable way of ancient living extremely well and one cannot help but see that what he says makes sense. However he is not suggesting that we all go back to a 'primitive' way of life and this is explained and expanded upon in the latter section of the book. This is where the book gets a little 'new age' for me and starts to lose it's reality, which is just a personal thing - I like hard edged, practical solutions which these aren't for me.
However it is an excellent book and I'm glad I bought it and read it, I shall return to it from time to time I am sure and whilst I find the author's solutions difficult to accept it has certainly made me think about the way I live my day to day life.
The first part of the book is an excellent introduction to why the world is in the state it is currently and how we got here. The author makes comparisons between our current way of living 'young culture' and 'ancient culture' what we would call today primitive or tribal living. He makes the case for a sustainable way of ancient living extremely well and one cannot help but see that what he says makes sense. However he is not suggesting that we all go back to a 'primitive' way of life and this is explained and expanded upon in the latter section of the book. This is where the book gets a little 'new age' for me and starts to lose it's reality, which is just a personal thing - I like hard edged, practical solutions which these aren't for me.
However it is an excellent book and I'm glad I bought it and read it, I shall return to it from time to time I am sure and whilst I find the author's solutions difficult to accept it has certainly made me think about the way I live my day to day life.
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