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Much of this book has been devoted to how bad things are, how disastrous they could become…, and how we have arrived at this crisis in the history of the world… In order to fix the future, we must understand the past. … The answers are in so many ways straightforward once we…can learn to ignore the constant drumbeat of a culture devoted to domination and exploitation. There are specific things we all can do. Most…have to do with how we think and see and hear and feel. … All begin with one person understanding how things are, how they got this way, and that there are alternatives. Right now, that person is you, and then you can pass this understanding along to others, and they to others, and on and on.
—Thom Hartmann, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
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jan 1d ago

…as we each individually begin to change our way of thinking and living, our actions echo out into the larger world.
—Thom Hartmann, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late

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jan 22h ago

After you set down this book, walk out into the natural world and try communicating with—sensing and speaking to—the plants and animals around you. Find within yourself the place where you sense the presence of life, and from which you can reach out to other life, to all life. From this place of seeing all life as sacred life, you can then begin to thoughtfully consider other things you can do to create a sustainable future.
—Thom Hartmann, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
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