Threshold
Subtitle: the crisis of Western culture
By: Thom Hartmann.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780670020911
Subjects: Civilization, Western; Social change; Environmental degradation; Financial crises; Overpopulation; Fallacies (Logic); Common fallacies
Description: An urgent look at our world's looming crises and what we must do to avert them. In this book the author and Air America host 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. He 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. No mere jeremiad, this book 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. It 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. Part prophecy, part call to arms, part policy prescription, this is the wake-up call our society so badly needs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references 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.