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More than three million listeners tune in every weekday to hear what Thom Hartmann has to say about the state of our world. Now, as the first decade of the twenty-first century closes amid economic collapse and the seeming ruin of the American Dream, Americas #1 rated progressive radio host sounds an urgent call to arms for building a better, more sustainable world-while theres still time. Offering not just an indictment of the failures that have courted economic, demographic, and environmental ruin, Hartmann also outlines five critical personal and policy solutions to bring us back from the brink. Threshold-like Jared Diamonds Collapse-is radical but rooted in common sense, illuminating the necessary next steps in the evolution of mainstream thinking.
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A PLUME BOOK
THRESHOLD
THOM HARTMANN is a bestselling author of nineteen books, and a Project Censored Award winner. His radio and TV show, heard on 100-plus stations including Sirius and XM Satellite radio, is also shown on the Free Speech TV Network. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Praise for Threshold
Thom Hartmann covers the waterfront of creation from altruistic bacteria to the hapless Moa to scope out examples of his outpost ideas. Threshold soberly highlights the fate of a particular hominid with an expanded forebrainusand the misguided paths we have taken. He brilliantly navigates a new path to help us squeeze through that next bottleneck.
Leonardo DiCaprio
A passionately argued brief against the excesses and inequities of Western culture the author says have placed us on the road to economic and environmental disaster. Passionateaccessible [with] arguments designed both to provoke and enlighten.
Shelf Awareness
If youre looking for a book that offers BIG answers to the BIG questions and that lays it all out in concise, clear, commonsense English, you have it in your hands! Hartmann both lays it out and lifts us up.
Jim Hightower, nationally syndicated columnist, radio commentator,
bestselling author and editor of the Hightower Lowdown
Americas most popular progressive talk show host brings his powerful political and historical insight to bear on the most important question of our time: To what may we humans aspire in this time of crisis and how can we achieve it?
David Korten, board chair, YES! magazine, and author of Agenda for a
New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth
and The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
At last: a book that defines the problems of our current robber baron economy and presents solutions that integrate natural laws with the way we live, work, and shop. Thorn Hartmann once again dazzles us with brilliant ideas and eloquent writing.
John Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Confessions
of an Economic Hit Man and The Secret History of the American Empire
Anyone who has heard Thom Hartmanns unique thinking-persons radio talk show will not be surprised by the clarity, liveliness, smarts, and historic scope of this book, which describes the crisis were inand how to get out. Threshold will stimulate readers yearning to understand the economic/ecological crisis just as surely as it will offend overpaid CEOs and religious or free-market fundamentalists.
Jeff Cohen, author of Cable News Confidential
and founder of Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
Also by Thom Hartmann
Cracking the Code:
How to Win Hearts, Change Minds,
and Restore Americas Original Vision
Screwed:
The Undeclared War Against
the Middle Class
What Would Jefferson Do?
A Return to Democracy
We the People:
A Call to Take Back America
Unequal Protection:
The Rise of Corporate Dominance
and the Theft of Human Rights
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
ADD: A Different Perception
The Edison Gene
Walking Your Blues Away
The Prophets Way
Ultimate Sacrifice (with Lamar Waldron)
Legacy of Secrecy (with Lamar Waldron)
The Progressive Plan to Pull America
Back from the Brink
THOM HARTMANN
PLUME
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Published by Plume, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Previously published in a Viking edition.
First Plume Printing, July 2010
Copyright Thom Hartmann, 2009
All rights reserved
REGISTERED TRADEMARKMARCA REGISTRADA
The Library of Congress has catalogued the Viking edition as follows:
Hartmann, Thom, date.
Threshold : the crisis of Western culture / Thom Hartmann.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-1-101-13319-4
1. Civilization, Western. 2. Social change. 3. Environmental degradation. 4. Financial crises.
5. Overpopulation. 6. Fallacies (Logic) 7. Common fallacies. I. Title.
CB245.H324 2009
909.09821dc22 2008055901
Original hardcover design by Amy Hill
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To my son, Justin Hartmann,
who kept me alive on the border at Darfur
and of whom I am so very proud
Be not like the lintel, which no hand can reach, but like the threshold, trodden by all. When the building falls, the threshold remains.
Rabbi Eleazar HaKappar, Babylonian Talmud, A.D. 500600
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the resta kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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