While most conversations about global warming end with concern about the possible extinction of the human race, long before that happens, nation after nation around the world will collapse, leading to a larger collapse of civilization itself.

When we look at the last 50,000 years of human history, we see that time after time, cultures eat everything that's edible and destroy their local ecosystems, producing famine and violence. Out of this, some societies remain stuck in cannibalism and difficulty; others opt for an ecological way out of their problems and their societies become successful and peaceful and in ecological balance. From the people of New Zealand, to New Caledonia, to the original people of North America and Australia, we have seen these patterns and choices repeated over and over.

Now, as we face our own ecological crisis that will almost certainly lead our civilization to collapse, the question is: Will we emerge from it more warlike, or peaceful and ecological?

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Quote: "We will prosper in the pursuit of life, or we will perish in the pursuit of money. The choice is ours." -- David Korten.

Article: "Portland sees far-right and counter-protesters take to streets - video" by Reuters/AP.

Article: "Police Use of Fatal Force Identified as a Leading Cause of Death in Young Men" by Robin Lally.

Article: "Why doesn't the United States have universal health care? The answer has everything to do with race." by Jeneen Interlandi.

Article: "Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness And Suffering During The Civil War And Reconstruction" by Jim Downs.

Article: "Social Security Act of 1935" by Wikipedia.

Law: "The National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)", 1935.

Article: "Fair Labor Standards Act" (1938) (40-hour work week, national minimum wage, etc).

Law: "G.I. Bill" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Police in three states arrest men threatening mass shootings" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "House GOP's Reported Talking Points For Shootings: Note ‘Violence From The Left'" by Matt Shuham.

Article: "Steve King: Rape and incest 'aided population growth'" by BBC.

Article: "When Your Rapist Demands Custody" by Michaela Haas.

Article: "Central America's choice: Pray for rain or migrate" by Georgina Gustin, Mariana Henninger.

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008 (2nd Amendment).

Article: "The Trashing Of John McCain" by Richard Gooding.

Article: "America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others." by Jamelle Bouie.

Article: "WhatsApp Is Radicalizing The Right In Bolsonaro's Brazil" by David Nemer.

Hour Two: Could an Extinction Event Save Humans and the Planet?
- Dr. David Korten, Co - founder and board chair - YES! Magazine /co - chair, New Economy Working Group / Founder & President - Living Economies Forum [formerly People - Centered Development Forum (PCDForum)] /member - Club of Rome /Founding board member emeritus - Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) / Author, Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, and the international best seller When Corporations Rule the World / His 2 most recent books are Change The Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth (2015) & When Corporations Rule the World (2015, 3rd Edition)

Article: "World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam" by Larry Elliott.

Article: "A 21st Century Economics for the People of a Living Earth" by David Korten.

Article: "Happiness And Wellbeing Indices" by Global Wellness Institute.

Article: "India's Modi Defends Kashmir Policy Amid Clash With Pakistan" by AP.

Article: "End time" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Rapture and the Real World: Mike Pompeo Blends Beliefs and Policy" by Edward Wong.

Article: "World Population" by PRB.

Article: "The 'white replacement theory' motivates alt-right killers the world over" by Rosa Schwartzburg.

Event: Aug. 24 730p: Portland, Or: Thom Hartmann in "This Land Sings" at the "Alberta Rose Theater" (Details).

Event: Aug. 25 3pm: Portland, Or: Thom Hartmann in "This Land Sings" at the "Alberta Rose Theater" (Details).

Event: Aug. 27 6pm: Portland, Or: "Bonds Over Borders - Fundraiser - Comedy - Music".

Article: "Exclusive: Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy" by Rick Perlstein.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "The heedless drift towards war with Iran shames Britain" by Simon Tisdall.

Article: "How Trump's arch-hawk lured Britain into a dangerous trap to punish Iran" by Simon Tisdall.

Article: "Gibraltar to release oil tanker at centre of Iran row pending challenge" by Dan Sabbagh and Patrick Wintour.

Article: "Iran warns US against oil tanker seizure as ship leaves Gibraltar" by Dan Sabbagh.

Article: "German FM urges diplomacy after Iran's seizure of UK tanker" by AP.

Article: "Iran's Foreign Minister Was Invited to Meet Trump in the Oval Office" by Robin Wright.

Article: "US sanctions Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif" by BBC.

Article: "Liz Cheney" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: The Tribalization of Politics
- Ian Reifowitz, Professor of Historical Studies, Empire State College - State University of New York (SUNY) & Author of 3 books... his latest, The Tribalization of Politics: How Limbaugh's Race-Baiting Rhetoric on Obama Paved Way for Trump

Article: "List of most-listened-to radio programs" by Wikipedia.

Video: Tribalization of Politics (by Ian Reifowitz).

Article: "Roe v. Wade" by History Channel.

Article: "Study: Children Raised at Home or in Day Care do Equally Well in School" by Fred Yager.

Article: "Pat Buchanan back on PBS, really? Why we don't need a "McLaughlin Group" revival now" by Melanie McFarland.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters" (Interstate Crosscheck) by Greg Palast, August 24, 2016.

Article: "Eat less meat: UN climate-change report calls for change to human diet" by Quirin Schiermeier.

Article: "'Gold Over Life, Literally': How Trump Forced Reversal on Mining Project EPA Scientists Warn Could Destroy Alaskan Salmon Ecosystem" by Jon Queally.

Article: "Tribes Of Bristol Bay Fight Against Pebble Mine" by Jessie Thomas-Blate.

Site: Ronald Reagan Legacy Project.

Article: "'I can't breathe': NYPD fires officer who put Eric Garner in chokehold" by Oliver Laughland.

Article: "Death of Eric Garner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Civil Rights Lawyer: 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler's Early Rhetoric/Policies, by Steven Rosenfeld" by Steven Rosenfeld.

Article: "Donald Trump 'kept book of Adolf Hitler's speeches in his bedside cabinet'" by Benjamin Kentish.

Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be talking with Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali, Vice President of Environmental Justice, Climate, and Community Revitalization - National Wildlife Federation about how recent perpetrators of mass killings have used environmental arguments to falsely justify their actions and hate groups are using environmental messages to attract new followers.

And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...

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Was Universal Healthcare Stopped by Racism?

Talk Radio's America: Book Report (by Brian Rosenwald)

Tribalization of Politics (by Ian Reifowitz)

Kashmir in Crisis - What is the Role of the United States? (w/ Ro Khanna)

Why Evangelicals Should Care About Climate Change

Bernie Sanders Wants Americans To Fight Climate Change Not Each Other (w/ Sen. Bernie Sanders)