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Most BuzzFlash readers know that Thom writes a monthly book review exclusively for BuzzFlash.com and that he is the number one listened to progressive talk show host according to Talker's Magazine (the trade publication of the radio talk show industry).

But Thom is also a renaissance man and visionary, as anyone who listens to him can attest to. He is a prolific author and an agile thinker.

But those who have read some of his many books know that his vast knowledge and progressive thinking extends far beyond the constraints of radio programming. Take, for instance, Hartmann's prescient Thom Hartmann's The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight -- Revised and Updated -- The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late (Paperback)," which foresaw the global warming and oil crisis early on, and presented it in a compelling, hopeful, comprehensive world view.

His newest book is perhaps his tour de force, closet to "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight." It is both a critique of how we have devastated earth and a hopeful survey of intriguing models that can reverse the damage.

Description of "Threshold":

An urgent look at our world’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 which society can function. In clear and impassioned prose, Hartmann busts the myths and ideologies of religious fundamentalism, capitalism run amok, male domination, and militarism that are draining our world of its natural and human resources and engendering the suffering of millions for the benefit of the few.

No mere jeremiad, Threshold examines cultures that have thrived, from the mother city of Caral, Peru, to modern Denmark, and targets five areas of policy—national, religious, economic, corporate, and environmental—for specific and immediate reform. Radical in its scope and boldness but simple in its commonsense logic, Threshold illustrates the mistakes we have made—as a culture, as a country, and as individuals—and provides the inspiration and motivation readers are looking for to build a better, more sustainable world for all. Part prophecy, part call to arms, part policy prescription, Threshold is, for readers of Jared Diamond, Thomas Friedman, and Paul Hawken, the wake-up call our society so badly needs.

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