As the evidence for runaway climate change keeps on mounting, humans are consuming more resources than they ever have before.

A new United Nations report has found that since 1970 we have more than tripled the amount of natural materials that we extract from the earth every single year.

As the Huffington Post reports,

In 1970, about 22 billion tons of primary materials were extracted from the Earth. These included metals, fossil fuels like coal, and other natural resources, such as timber and cereals. In 2010, that number had ballooned to 70 billion tons.

If this rate of consumption continues over the next few decades, the UN report concludes that human civilization will need to extract as much as 180 billion tons of material annually by 2050 to preserve the status quo.

Given the ongoing reality of climate change and the disruptions its causing in global agriculture - maintaining that level of consumption is borderline impossible.

In other words - we need to change our ways soon or face a disaster like modern civilization has never seen before.

-Thom

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Monday's Daily Stack

Book: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer.

Article: "Can Poverty in America Be Compared to Conditions in the World's Poorest Countries?" by H. Luke Shaefer, Kathryn Edin.

Law: "G.I. Bill" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Redlining" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pentagon’s Sloppy Bookkeeping Means $6.5 Trillion Can’t Pass an Audit" by Eric Pianin.

Article: "Watch as four giant oil companies try to interfere with a California election" by Michael Hiltzik.

Article: "8 of the Auto Factories Moved to Mexico for Lower Wages Due to NAFTA" by Paola Casale.

Movie: "The Purge".

Book, site: "Web of Debt", Ellen Brown.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8. "To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;"

Article: "National debt of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump would freeze new federal regulations, revive Keystone: speech" by Reuters.

Article: "Trump’s economic team is loaded with the same Tea Party cranks who destroyed Kansas’s economy" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Tea party challenger to take on Shuster as a Democrat" by Heather Caygle.

Movie: "Trading Places".

Article: "Concern troll" by Wikipedia.

Article: "It Works for Vampires: Can Garlic Scare Off Mosquitoes?" by Laura Johannes.

Article: "Hoover Dam" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Colorado River" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Treaties Between the U.S. and Mexico" by International Boundary and Water Commission.

Article: "Jill Stein: Top Contributors, federal election data 2016" by Center for Responsive Politics.

Article: "Committee Assignments" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Video: Jill Stein Full Speech At the Green Party Convention, Aug 6, 2016.

Article: "Transcript of Dr. Jill Stein's Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech at Green Party National Convention", Aug 6, 2016.

Video: Third Party Presidential Debate and pre-debate show - Full Version, Oct 23, 2012.

Video: Colorado River.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann.

Talk Media News Segment:
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Article: "Trump pivots to the economy" by TMN.

Article: "Donald Trump Pitches Tax Breaks, Moratorium on New Regulations" by Nick Timiraos, Beth Reinhard.

Article: "Free The Delegates Activists Still Trying To Dump Trump" by Dan Spencer.

Article: "Quetta Bombing: Dozens Killed in Attack Targeting Pakistan Hospital" by NBC News.

Article: "Senate Dems make new call to cancel recess and pass Zika bill" by Seung Min Kim.

Article: "Delta: Thousands of passengers stranded by power cut" by BBC.

Article: "Android bug fear in 900 million phones" by Mark Ward.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman

Hour Three: The Bait & Switch on TPP By Most Politicians... Right & Left!
- Curtis Ellis, Obamatrade.com/American Jobs Alliance

Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann. Get "Screwed" by Thom Hartmann!

Video: Trump to unveil economic plan. Curtis Ellis joins MSNBC’s Joy Reid 8/7/16.

Article: "50 Shockingly Extreme Right Wing Proposals in the 2016 Republican Party Platform" by Steven Rosenfeld.

Video: "Giant Sucking Sound - Ross Perot 1992 Presidential Debate".

Video: Obama's Promise to renegotiate NAFTA, 2008.

Article: "Memo Gives Canada’s Account of Obama Campaign’s Meeting on Nafta" by Michael Luo, March 4, 2008.

Article: "Trans-Pacific Partnership: Biden all optimism, except on trade deal" by Sarah-Jane Tasker, Rick Morton. "we’re going to try do a lame duck session in the US congress"

Movie: "Gasland".

Movie: "Gasland Part II" (2013).

Article: "The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection (Continued)" (Federalist 10) by James Madison.

Book: The American Revolution of 1800: How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction - and What This Means Today by Dan Sisson with Thom Hartmann.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Article: "Twelve Reasons NOT to Vote for Jill Stein & Ajamu Baraka" by ocoandasoc.

Article: "Lead Attorney In Anti-Clinton DNC Fraud Case Mysteriously Found Dead" by Tyler Durden.

Article: "Vince Foster" by Wikipedia.

Video: Newt Gingrich Confirms Caucus Room Conspiracy!

Article: "It's Not Tru, Deau!" by Dan Evon.

Article: "Trump revises his tax plan, raises top rate" by Jeremy Diamond and Tom LoBianco.

Lawsuit: "Dodge v. Ford Motor Company", Mich. 1919.

Article: "Democrats' new platform adopts many Sanders demands" by Chris Megerian.

Documentary: Slavery by Another Name.

Book: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon.

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