YES! – And we have to stop using fossil fuels within the next 17 years to do it.
58%
NO! – We are past the tipping point, humans will go extinct in the next 100 years.
42%
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
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With His Holiness The Dalai Lama, at His home in Dharamsala, India (Synthesis Dialogues - made into a movie narrated by Harrison Ford)
From Screwed:
"I think many of us recognize that for all but the wealthiest, life in America is getting increasingly hard. Screwed explores why, showing how this is no accidental process, but rather the product of conscious political choices, choices we can change with enough courage and commitment. Like all of Thom’s great work, it helps show us the way forward."
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"Beneath the success and rise of American enterprise is an untold history that is antithetical to every value Americans hold dear. This is a seminal work, a godsend really, a clear message to every citizen about the need to reform our country, laws, and companies."
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"Never one to shy away from the truth, Thom Hartmann’s collected works are inspiring, wise, and compelling. His work lights the way to a better America."
It is like they rule. If you are not very wealthy, you have no say unless you protest, then they think you are filthy and uneducated. Most of the politicians are bought and paid for by the corporations. But what goes around comes around and eventually something will backfire. People are becoming aware.
The economic model comes from two illusions the first is the illusion of Insufficiency the second Disunity our entire economy emerges from the idea that there is not enough to go around(insufficiency)of what humans need to be happy , and the idea that human beings are separate from each other (Disunity).
Ideas about life come from the old spirituality ,presently on our planet wealth is defined as possessions and power .The old spirituality encourages you to have dominion over the earth.We have interpreted this to mean domination.And so ,we have imagined that ownership of,or power over,people,places,and things is an asset-or part of what you have called wealth.
According to this paradigm,the more things you owned ,the more power you had,and the wealthier you were.
When we embrace the New Spirituality all this will change ,wealth will be defined not as possessions and power ,but as access and happiness,use of the stuff of life rather than ownership of the stuff of life how can anyone OWN any part of the earth it belongs to life and we are here as good care takers and stewards sustaining and passing on to the future generations ,we are asked by life to express the Life principle of sustainability.The articles that are placed in our care are ours temporarily ,only for safekeeping ,they are not our possessions this thought is not in any lasting sense functional.
Ownership is a temporary fiction .It is an invention of the mind and ,like all mental constructions,it is temporary,having nothing to do with ultimate reality. Nothing that is possessed by anyone is possessed by them forever ,things may be in your possession ,but they are not your possessions.
When you look at the planet from space there are no boundaries or countries ,we are making it all up this is called make believe ,question do we wish for a beautiful reality? or a nightmare scenario? we get to decide!! We get to create heaven on earth heaven as we will get to understand is right here so heaven can wait paraphrasing the film.The time will come soon when we get to play god as we are supposed to do but with love and understanding and purity and respect and reverence for life we will push life spans way beyond that of what we are living now ,the human lifespan will stretch far into the future .The technology of stem cells ,used with great care and wonderment and new beliefs about what it means to be human combined with a preventative disease care system and responsibility will enable our species to go long and not think short term survival and trash our planet as fast as possible for self gratification so people can hoard more stuff and squander resources as we are doing.
In the last 40 years we have used more resources than the last 40 thousand years!
namaste