Threshold
Subtitle: the progressive plan to pull America back from the brink
By: Thom Hartmann
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780452296305
Subjects: Environmental degradation; Fallacies (Logic); Common fallacies; Financial crises; Western Civilization; Overpopulation; Social change
Description: An urgent look at our world's looming crises and what we must do to avert them In Threshold, writer and Air America host Thom Hartmann looks at the deteriorating state of our planet, where the dynamics of environmental, economic, and population change are boiling over the limits within which society can function. In clear and impassioned prose, Hartmann busts the myths and ideologies of religious fundamentalism, capitalism run amok, male domination, and militarism that are draining our world of its natural and human resources and engendering the suffering of millions for the benefit of the few.
Notes: "First Plume Printing, July, 2010."

Originally published as Threshold : the crisis of Western culture by Viking, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: Darfur; title: Thresholds; title: Environment; title: Economy; title: Population; title: Four Mistakes:; title: Unnatural selection; title: Free market fools; title: XX factor; title: Gunboat altruism; title: How Not To Fail:; title: Denmark: a modern beacon; title: Maori: eating themselves alive; title: Caral, Peru: a thousand years of peace; title: Crossing The Threshold:; title: Band-aids; title: Good stuff.; title: An urgent look at our world's looming crises and what we must do to avert them In Threshold, writer and Air America host Thom Hartmann looks at the deteriorating state of our planet, where the dynamics of environmental, economic, and population change are boiling over the limits within which society can function; title: In clear and impassioned prose, Hartmann busts the myths and ideologies of religious fundamentalism, capitalism run amok, male domination, and militarism that are draining our world of its natural and human resources and engendering the suffering of millions for the benefit of the few; title: No mere jeremiad, Threshold examines cultures that have thrived, from the mother city of Caral, Peru, to modern Denmark, and targets five areas of policy: national, religious, economic, corporate, and environmental for specific and immediate reform; title: Radical in its scope and boldness but simple in its commonsense logic, Threshold illustrates the mistakes we have made as a culture, as a country, and as individuals and provides the inspiration and motivation readers are looking for to build a better, more sustainable world for all; title: Part prophecy, part call to arms, part policy prescription, Threshold is, for readers of Jared Diamond, Thomas Friedman, and Paul Hawken, the wake-up call our society so badly needs.