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If we don’t change our ways soon...
A new report by the Royal Society, chaired by Nobel prize-winning biologist Sir John Sulston warns that world population must be stabilized and consumption in wealthy nations must be reduced or the entire planet is in big trouble. As the report reads: “The number of people living on the planet has never been higher, their levels of consumption are unprecedented and vast changes are taking place in the environment. We can choose to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption… or we can choose to do nothing and to drift into a downward spiral of economic and environmental ills leading to a more unequal and inhospitable future.”
This is the same warning that President Jimmy Carter gave Americans back in the 1970’s – but it was ignored when Ronald Reagan came to power with a “more positive” message basically telling Americans we can do whatever we want. And then after 9/11 – Bush told us all we should go shopping and consume ever more.
And now with corporations calling the shots in Washington – long-term sustainability of the planet takes a back seat to short-term profits. If we don’t change our ways soon – and embrace clean, alternative energy and educate women around the plant – then we all could be headed for a rough century.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Dr. James Loewen, Sociologist / Historian / Author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me" (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Conversations with Great Minds - Dr. James Loewen, Sociologist / Historian / Author of 6 books including "Lies My Teacher Told Me" and "Lies Across America".
Daily Take: Why we need to "fight like hell" for workers...
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Thursday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "The history of America has been largely created by the deeds of its working people and their organizations. Nor has this contribution been confined to raising wages and bettering work conditions; it has been fundamental to almost every effort to extend and strengthen our democracy." -- William Cahn.
Hour One: We are all suspects now...
Speech: " First Inaugural Address", Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 4 March 1933. "let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Hour Two: Right to work for less is slavery under 13th Amendment- Vincent Vernuccio, Competitive Enterprise Institute 
Article: " First Amendment to the United States Constitution": "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Reax to VP Biden's speech on national security- Secretary Michéle Flournoy, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Hour Three: Why no bailout for student loans?- Nick Gillespie, Reason.com and ReasonTV
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Why we need to implement the Volcker Rule now- Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) 
Hour Two: running for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' House seat- Ron Barber, former aide to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
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Thom's Poll
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Thom Hartmann on the News - April 26, 2012
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