We are stumbling — seemingly oblivious — into the bared teeth of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch driven by humanity itself. We are walking straight into it and pretending it's not here.

The world today is on the verge of a major food emergency, provoked in part by Russia's attack on Ukraine but more broadly by the damage heat from global warming is doing to crops worldwide. This is both a crisis and an opportunity.

Let's start with the basics. Food is the raw material that makes people. More food, more people; less food, fewer people.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Welcome To the Anthropocene - The Age Of Human Die-offs" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: First Peoples in a New World by David J. Meltzer.

Book: Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow.

Book: Ishmael:A Novel by Daniel Quinn.

Article: "Farm Population Lowest Since 1850's" by AP.

Article: "Current World Population" by Worldometers.info.

Article: "NASA satellite images show how much Lake Mead has receded since 2000" by Marlene Lenthang.

Article: "The Colorado River drought is the first climate disaster the U.S. legally has to deal with" by Dave Levitan.

Article: "Rio Grande runs dry in Albuquerque" by Spencer Schacht.

Article: "'I'm feeling great': Biden speaks after testing negative for Covid" by NBC News.

Article: "Latest Polls" by FiveThirtyEight.

Article: "Trump Urges Biggest Protest 'Ever' if Prosecutors Investigating Him 'Do Anything Illegal'" "They want to put me in jail". by Natalie Colarossi.

Article: "Brittney Griner Involved In Possible Prisoner Swap With Russia" by Gerald Posner.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."

Article: "Trump speech outlines plans for future America: Mass executions, internment camps, and martial law" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Dachau concentration camp" by Wikipedia.

Law: "6th Amendment" (speedy trial, witnesses, defense).

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

Article: "Malaria" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Piacenzian" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Prophet's Way" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Salton Sea" by Wikipedia.

Book: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.

Article: "Cloud Atlas (novel)" by David Mitchell.

Article: "Cloud Atlas (film)" by David Mitchell.

Article: "Gun executives tell Congress: don’t blame us for deadly shootings" by Joan E Greve.

Article: "Huntington Beach Desalination Plant" by EPA.

Article: "Plan for controversial Huntington Beach desalination plant rejected" by CBSLA.

Transcript: "Donald Trump speaks at America First Agenda Summit in Washington, DC Transcript".

Article: "Eugene Goodman" by Wikipedia.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Article: "Copxtortion and Crime: Black Man Beware" by Rohn Kenyatta.

Site: OpEdNews - Rohn Kenyatta.

Hour Two: How Is "Heat" Affecting the Economy? and What Will The New Fed Rate Hike Do to the Economy?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book)

Article: "How record-setting heat waves in cities across UK, US and mainland Europe could punish economies already reeling from inflation" by Derek Lemoine.

Article: "Fed to unveil another large rate hike as signs of economic slowdown grow" by Howard Schneider.

Article: "Housing Market" by US News.

Article: "GM affirms 2022 profit outlook, but shares drop as net income sinks 40%" by Paul Lienert and Ben Klayman.

Article: "Walmart warns of lower profit due to food, gas inflation " by AP.

Article: "Is US already in a recession? If GDP falls for second quarter, one definition says we may" by Paul Davidson.

Article: "A Brief History of Income Inequality in the U.S." by Matthew Johnston.

Article: "Great Depression (1929 - 1930s) by Wikipedia.

Article: "IMF warns world economy may soon be on the cusp of recession – as it happened" by Graeme Wearden.

Article: "Desalination" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reclaimed water" by Wikipedia.

Article: "World's largest water recycling plant located in Orange County getting major expansion" by David Gonzalez.

Article: "Desalination and Water Recycling" by Mission 2017.

Article: "Huntington Beach Desalination Plant" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Architect of Texas abortion ban has his sights set on basic preventive health coverage next" by Laura Clawson .

Article: "Mark Meadows" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump in the Philippines: The island nation with the clues to US strategy" by Karishma Vaswani.

Book: World War II Conscientious Objectors: Germfask, Michigan the Alcatraz Camp by Jane Kopecky.

Article: "Seawater Desalination" by Carlsbad.

Book: The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat by Rob Percival.

Article: "Regenerative agriculture" by Wikipedia.

Site: Rivian.

Article: "John Marshall" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Marbury v. Madison", 1803 (judicial review).

Site: Godchecker.

Article: "Theocracy In New England" by encyclopedia.com.

Article: "No, there is not evidence that Ginni Thomas paid for buses to bring people to the Capitol siege." by Linda Qiu.

Site: Stop The Steal.

Hour Three: How QAnon Themes Burrowed Deeper into GOP politics This Year
- Mike Rothschild, Investigative journalist focusing on the intersection of internet culture, politics & conspiracy theories...specializing in QAnon conspiracy cult since its inception in 2018...contributor-The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, and elsewhere. Author of the new book, The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult and Conspiracy Theory of Everything

Article: "QAnon Candidates Aren't Thriving, but Some of Their Ideas Are" by Stuart A. Thompson.

Article: "QAnon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How memes became the main language of QAnon" by Mike Rothschild.

Article: "Unification Church" (Moonies) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Surprise! The U.S. Is Still Energy Independent" by Robert Rapier.

Article: "Biden revokes KXL permit in blow to Canada's oil sector, Ottawa disappointed" by Rod Nickel, Nia Williams.

Article: "Keystone Pipeline" (KXL) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rep. Ro Khanna: ‘I Don’t Think We Should Be Selling Oil to Foreign Countries Right Now’ " by Melanie Arter.

Article: "Trump: ‘Fox & Friends’ has gone to the ‘dark side’" by Dominick Mastrangelo.

Article: "Because of Texas abortion law, her wanted pregnancy became a medical nightmare " by Carrie Feibel.

Article: "Texas Abortion Ban Turned One Woman's Pregnancy Into a 'Dystopian Nightmare'" by Brett Wilkins.

Site: All in her head (Jessica Valenti).

Article: "Abortion, Every Day (7.26.22)" by Jessica Valenti.

Article: "We Are a Joke to Them" by Jessica Valenti.

Case: "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" (2022) (abortion).

Article: "We could fill Lake Powell in less than a year with an aqueduct from Mississippi River" by Don Siefkes.

Article: "Declaration of Independence".

Book: Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden.

Article: "M'Naghten rules" (insanity defence) (1843).

Article: "Mary L. Trump" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How US sewage plants can remove medicines from wastewater" by University at Buffalo.

Article: "Reverse osmosis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Plants working to combat pollution" by Gaëlle Dupont.

Article: "Muskegon County Wastewater Management System Metro Wastewater Treatment Plant" by Sydney Ruhala.

Article: "2022 Platform" by Republican Party of Texas.

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

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