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by Thom Hartmann


  Walking the Blues Away

  1. Emmy E. Werner and Ruth S. Smith, Vulnerable but Invincible: A Longitudinal Study of Resilient Children and Youth (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982).

  2. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press: 1871, 1981), 166.

  3. Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Containing His Autobiography, Notes on Virginia, Parliamentary Manual, Official Papers, Messages and Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private, eds. Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh (Washington, DC: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1905), Notes on Virginia, 1784–85.

  4. See note 2.

  5. Daniel Quinn, Ishmael and My Ishmael (New York: Bantam Books, 1995 and 1998).

  6. Peter Farb, Man’s Rise to Civilization, as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State (New York: Avon Books, 1976).

  PART III: VISIONS AND VISIONARIES

  Life in a Tipi

  1. This early interest later led me to study wild plant taxonomy at Wayne State University, and then to get CH, MH, and PhD degrees from Emerson College, Dominion Herbal College, and Brantridge Forest School (UK) in herbal and homeopathic medicine. In the mid-1970s, I started the Michigan Healing Arts Center, and in the 1980s I studied and practiced acupuncture in the world’s largest acupuncture teaching hospital in Beijing, China.

  How to Raise a Fully Human Child

  1. Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit (Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 2002).

  2. Allan N. Schore, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999).

  3. Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (London: Methuen, 1982).

  4. Robert K. Logan, The Alphabet Effect: The Impact of the Phonetic Alphabet on the Development of Western Civilization (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986).

  5. Leonard Shlain, The Alphabet versus the Goddess: The Conflict between Word and Image (New York: Viking, 1998).

  6. Erik Erikson, The Erik Erikson Reader, ed. Robert Coles (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000).

  7. See note 2.

  Starting Salem in New Hampshire

  1. J. Tevere MacFadyen, “The Miracle of a ‘Normal’ Home,” Country Journal, December 1981, http://www.thomhartmann.com/articles/2007/11/miracle-normal-home.

  2. Robert Frost, “The Death of the Hired Man,” lines 122–23, http://www.bartleby.com/118/3.html.

  Younger-Culture Drugs of Control

  1. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (London: Penguin, 1941, 2010).

  2. Theodore Roszak, The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology (Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press), 2002. Theodore Roszak, Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind (New York: Sierra Club Books), 1995.

  3. Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000).

  4. Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution (New York: Bantam Books, 1993).

  PART IV: EARTH AND EDGES

  The Atmosphere

  1. Jon Bowermaster, “Global Warming Changing Inuit Lands, Lives, Arctic Expedition Shows,” National Geographic News website, May 15, 2007, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070515-inuit-arctic.html.

  2. John Roach, “Ice Shelf Collapses Reveal New Species, Ecosystem Changes,” National Geographic News website, February 27, 2007, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070227-polar-species.html.

  3. James Hansen, Larissa Nazarenko, Reto Ruedy, et al., “Earth’s Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications,” Science 308, no. 5727 (June 3, 2005): 1431–35.

  4. Ibid.

  5. James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Pushker Kharecha, et al., “Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?,” Open Atmospheric Science Journal 2 (2008): 217–31, http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Brad Knickerbocker, “Humans’ Beef with Livestock: A Warmer Planet,” Christian Science Monitor, February 20, 2007, www.csmonitor.com/2007/0220/p03s01-ussc.html.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Daniel D. Chiras, Environmental Science: A Systems Approach to Sustainable Development (Boston: Jones & Bartlett, 2006), 230.

  10. Ibid.

  11. “Pathology of a Diseased Civilization,” based on Canticle to the Cosmos, documentary series produced by mathematical cosmologist Dr. Brian Swimme, http://www.anoliscircle.com/Pathology.html.

  The Death of the Trees

  1. Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Report of the Fourth External Programme and Management Review of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), March 1996, http://www.fao.org/Wairdocs/TAC/X5806E/x5806e00.htm

  2. John Robbins, Diet for a New America (Tiburon, CA: H. J. Kramer, 1987).

  3. Dirk Beveridge, “More Madness over Cow Bones in English Water Filters,” Associated Press, April 8, 1998.

  Cool Our Fever

  1. Jim Hansen, “State of the Wild: Perspective of a Climatologist,” April 10, 2007, http://www.davidkabraham.com/Gaia/Hansen%20State%20of%20the%20Wild.pdf; also in Eva Fearn, ed., State of the Wild 2008–2009: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2008), 27.

  2. Jad Mouawad and Andrew C. Revkin, “Saudis Seek Payments for Any Drop in Oil Revenues,” New York Times, October 13, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/business/energy-environment/14oil.html.

  3. Wallace S. Broecker, “CO2 Arithmetic,” Science 315 (2007): 1371; and comments in Science 316 (2007): 829; and Oliver Morton, “Is This What It Takes to Save the World?” Nature 447 (2007): 132.

  4. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Living Beyond Our Means: Natural Assets and Human Well-Being, Statement from the Board, March 2005, 5; and Jonathan A. Foley et al., “Global Consequences of Land Use,” Science 309 (2005): 570.

  5. James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, 3rd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979, 2000).

  6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standby_power.

  7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission.

  8. A concise description of the 100,000 Roofs Program can be found at http://www.professionalroofing.net/closeup.aspx?id=1838.

  9. Preben Maegaard, “Sensational German Renewable Energy Law and Its Innovative Tariff Principles,” Folkecenter for Renewable Energy, http://www.folkecenter.dk/en/articles/EUROSUN2000-speech-PM.htm.

  10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Germany.

  11. “US Nuclear Energy Plants,” Nuclear Energy Institute, http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/nuclear_statistics/usnuclearpowerplants.

  12. See note 10.

  13. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Renewable_Energy_Sources_Act.

  14. Mark Landler, “Germany Debates Subsidies for Solar Industry,” New York Times, May 16, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/business/worldbusiness/16solar.html.

  15. Jim Tankersley and Don Lee, “China Takes Lead in Clean-Power Investment: US Falls to No. 2 in Funding for Such Alternative Sources as Wind and Solar,” Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2010, http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/25/business/la-fi-energy-china25-2010mar25.

  PART V: JOURNEYS

  Caral, Peru: A Thousand Years of Peace

  1. Worldwatch Institute, http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4109.

  PART VI: AMERICA THE CORPORATOCRACY

  The True Story of the Boston Tea Party

  1. A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party with a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes, a Survivor of the Little Band of Patriots Who Drowned the Tea in Boston Harbour in 1773 (New York: S. S. Bliss, 1834). All subsequent quotes from Hewes are from this volume.

  2. Howard Jay Graham, Everyman’s Constitution: Historical Essays on the Fourteenth Amendment, the “Conspiracy Theory,” and American Constitutionalism (Madison: State Hist
orical Society of Wisconsin, 1968).

  Wal-Mart Is Not a Person

  1. Robert Barnes, “Justices to Review Campaign Finance Law Constraints,” Washington Post, June 30, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/29/AR2009062903997.html.

  2. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 US 08-295 (2010), http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf.

  3. David D. Kirkpatrick, “In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to G.O.P.,” New York Times, February 7, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/us/politics/08lobby.html.

  4. Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, “What Are We Bid for American Justice?” Huffington Post, February 19, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-moyers/what-are-webid-for-ameri_b_469335.html.

  Medicine for Health, Not for Profit

  1. Geeta Anand, “The Big Secret in Health Care: Rationing Is Here,” Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2003, http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/iatrogenic/message/1070.

  2. David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, “A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians’ Proposal,” New England Journal of Medicine 320 (January 12, 1989): 102–8, http://www.pnhp.org/publications/NEJM1_12_89.htm.

  Privatizing the Commons

  1. Michael Grunwald, “How Enron Sought to Tap the Everglades,” Washington Post, February 8, 2002.

  2. James Flanigan, “Enron Is Blazing New Business Trail,” Houston Chronicle, January 26, 2001.

  3. See http://www.ratical.com/ratville/CAH/BechtelBlood.pdf and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Cochabamba_protests.

  4. David C. Korten, “Money versus Wealth,” Yes!, Spring 1997, http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/Korten.html.

  5. Ibid.

  6. Maggie McDonald, “International Piracy Rights,” review of Protect or Plunder? Understanding Intellectual Property Rights by Vandana Shiva, New Scientist, January 12, 2002, 23.

  7. Ibid.

  8. “Patently Rewarding Work,” New Scientist, January 12, 2002, 50.

  9. Ibid, 51.

  10. Karen Hoggan, “Neem Tree Patent Revoked,” BBC News, May 11, 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/745028.stm.

  11. Anup Shah, “Food Patents—Stealing Indigenous Knowledge?” (September 26, 2002), http://www.globalissues.org/article/191/food-patents-stealing-indigenous-knowledge.

  12. David Cay Johnston, “US Companies File in Bermuda to Slash Tax Bills,” New York Times, February 18, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/business/18TAX.html?pagewanted=all.

  13. David Cay Johnston, “Enron’s Collapse: The Havens; Enron Avoided Income Taxes in 4 of 5 Years,” New York Times, January 17, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/business/enron-s-collapse-the-havens-enron-avoided-income-taxes-in-4-of-5-years.html?pagewanted=1.

  14. See note 12.

  15. Gar Alperovitz, “Tax the Plutocrats!” The Nation 276, no. 3 (January 27, 2003), http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/alperovitz/taxplutocrats.html.

  16. Lawrence Mitchell, in a discussion with the author, February 2002.

  Index

  Adams, John, 10–11, 282, 307

  Adams, John Quincy, 19

  addiction, 147–149

  ADHD/ADD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), 60–77

  anthropological basis for, 68–72, 74–77

  conventional views of, 2–3

  distractibility in, 65–66

  and the Edison gene, 62–64, 73–74

  education system handling of, 62–64, 128–130, 254

  hunter-gatherer adaptations and, 57–58, 64–65, 72–73

  impulsivity manifestations, 66–67

  Indian views on, 60–61

  risk taking and, 67–68

  advertising industry, 256

  African indigenous peoples, 68–69, 71, 81–82

  agribusiness, 255

  Aguas del Tunari, 303–305

  Ahlmark, Per, 35

  Air America, 4

  Alarm, The (pamphlet; Rusticus), 267–268

  alien intervention, 199, 201, 202, 203

  Alito, Samuel, 276, 282, 283

  alternative energy, 183–184, 186–187, 191–194, 196

  American Dream

  in Cannery Row, 53–56

  as disappearing, 14–17, 257

  linked to democracy, 20–21

  new vision of, 251–261

  Amin, Idi, 209, 211, 214

  Anand, Geeta, 295–296

  animals

  campaign against vivisection, 143

  and climate change, 167–168, 174

  democratic behaviors, 19–20

  present extinction, 167, 191, 236, 258–259

  war and domestication of, 246–247

  anti-intellectualism, 48–52

  Aristotle, 153, 190

  artificial persons, 278

  atmospheric pollution, 168–173, 176–177

  Attention Deficit Disorder (Hartmann), 57–58

  attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. See ADHD/ADD

  banking industry crisis, 287–288

  Beck, Glenn, 45

  beetle infestations, 178, 180, 182

  Bermuda tax havens, 309–310

  bilateral therapy, 103–113

  cultural dissociative barriers and, 112–113

  importance of bilaterality, 106–111

  overview of, 103–106

  Bill of Rights, 10, 271–272, 282

  Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold), 275–276, 277, 284

  black emancipation, 273, 290

  Blair, Tony, 249

  Bolivian water privatization, 303–305

  Boston Port Act, 270, 279

  Boston Tea Party, 266–271, 279

  brain functioning, 107–108, 155–156, 247–248. See also bilateral therapy; human development

  Breyer, Stephen, 281

  broadcast news, 39–47

  devolution of, 40–43

  grip of corporate syndication, 45–46

  as infotainment, 39–40

  need for public interest programming, 46–47

  Burkhardt (Salem translator), 222, 224, 226, 230, 231–232

  Bush, George H. W., 27, 29, 294

  Bush, George W., 25, 99, 277, 283, 294

  cable infrastructure, 46–47, 52

  CAFTA (Central America Free Trade Agreement), 23–24

  California education cuts, 48–50

  Calvin, William, 74, 75, 76

  campaign contributions, 275–276.

  See also Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

  Canadian gun control, 89–90

  Cannery Row (Steinbeck), 9, 53–56

  cap-and-trade programs, 196

  Caral, Peru, 238–244

  mother city, 210, 237, 243

  peaceful/warless, 239–240, 244, 248–249

  shamanistic rituals, 242

  women in, 240, 248

  carbon credits, 196

  carbon emissions, 168–172, 185–187

  carbon tax, 195–197

  Carter, James C., 50–51

  cattle farming, 172–173, 178–180

  CEOs, 312–316

  chain stores, 53–54

  chartermongering era, 280

  child rearing. See human development

  China, 147–148, 186, 194, 256, 293

  chipping, 148

  Christianity, 83, 199, 201

  Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 275–292

  background of, 275–276

  and the conservative worldview, 276–281, 286

  dissenting opinion in, 281–285

  harm inflicted by, 286–289

 

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