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The Crisis of Western Culture
Viking Adult
August 2009
On Sale: July 23, 2009
288 pages
ISBN: 0670020915
EAN: 9780670020911
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
An urgent look at our worldÂ’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. 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. 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. 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.
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