What is Happening to Our Planet?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Why are a majority of the large animals, and even many of the insects, so vastly diminished in number just since the 1970s? Also- a shocking new discovery on the surgical skills... of ants?!
And, Thom reads from 'Diet for a Small Planet', by Frances Moore Lappé.
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| 0:31.2 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:35.0 | Our book today in the Tom Hartman Book Club is Francis More LePay's Diet for a Small |
| 0:40.9 | Planet, 50th anniversary edition and this is from the introduction of the |
| 0:46.0 | 50th anniversary edition it starts out with a quote from George Orwell to see what is |
| 0:51.0 | in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. |
| 0:53.8 | I begin this journey with the realization that growing and eating plant-centered diets |
| 0:58.1 | was a great choice. |
| 0:59.5 | Today it's a no contest necessity. |
| 1:01.9 | Either we now make a big turn or life on earth as we know it is |
| 1:05.7 | gone forever. |
| 1:07.3 | Whoa, this blunt declaration rocks me. I'll admit it has taken me decades to get here and I'm delighted now for this |
| 1:14.1 | opportunity to share my learning journey with you your reader you'll forgive me |
| 1:18.5 | though if my first thoughts are of my own delight as over the years strangers have told me your book changed my life |
| 1:25.9 | one story I'll surely never forget is from a friend and a long time head of the Berkeley College of Music |
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