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Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture
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Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture (2009) (edit title/settings)

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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... read more

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  • “But, Gladish points out, "There's another and more demanding requirement to meet. They (corporate CEOs) must be willing to operate in a runaway economic and financial system that demands the exploitation of humanity and the environment for short-term gain. This is a disturbing contradiction to their children's interests and their own intelligence, education, cultural appreciation, and religious beliefs. It's this second requirement," Gladish notes, "that drastically reduces the number of quality candidates <for corporations> to pick from. Most people in this group are not willing to forsake God, family, and humanity to further corporate interest in a predatory financial system. For the small percentage of people left, the system continues to increase salaries and benefit packages to entice the most qualified and ruthless to detach themselves from humanity and become corporate executives and their hired guns."”
    Maj. William C. Gladish in Toys, War, and Faith: Democracy in Jeopardy
  • “Are we innately evil or good, warlike or peaceful?”
    Thom Hartman
  • “You don't have to shove our way of life down people's throats with the barrel of a gun. If it's that good, they will steal it themselves!”
    Dick Gregory
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  • A sudden and worldwide shift to vegetarianism (or even close to vegetarianism—most indigenous societies historically have used meat as a flavoring rather than a staple, eating less than a fifth of the meat and dairy products Americans do) would have more impact on global warming than if every jet plane and car in the world were to fall silent forever.
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  • A derivative is typically a bet on the future value of a stock or mortgage or some other underlying asset from which its value is “derived.” Mortgage insurance—betting that a mortgage won’t fail (a “credit default swap”)—for example, is a form of a derivative.
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  • Today’s worldwide economic crisis is quite simply a failure of culture. We forgot that the economy is here to serve us, not us to serve the “owners” of the economy.
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  • Hamilton’s point was that there are two things needed for an “infant industry” to turn into a genuine manufacturing power. The first was cheap raw materials; the second, protection from foreign competition.
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  • But when a single element in a biological system rises up and begins to consume far more of the local resources than the system can sustain, eventually the system itself collapses. We call this cancer.
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  • Everything we produce must, in some way, be reconsumable, reusable, or be food for another.
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  • Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. —Timothy Leary (1920-1996)
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  1. Thom Hartmann (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 0670020915
Page Count: 288

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