From the Book - Regular Print - Revised edition.
Part I We're Running Out of Ancient Sunlight --
We're Made Out of Sunlight 9 --
How Can Things Look So Good Yet Be So Bad? 23 --
Slavery and Freedom 35 --
Glimpsing a Possible Future in Haiti and Other Hot Spots 39 --
Extinctions: Diversity Supports Survival 55 --
A Visit to a Country that's Planning How to Survive: China 78 --
Deforesting, Fighting for Fuel, and the Rise and Fall of Empires 85 --
Part II Younger and Older Cultures: How Did We Get Here? --
Power of Our Point of View: Older and Younger Cultures 97 --
Younger Culture Drugs of Control 103 --
Younger Culture Stories About How Things Are 118 --
What We Need to Remember 142 --
Lives of Ancient People 165 --
Power vs. Cooperation in Social Structure: the City/State vs. Tribes 172 --
But What About Darwin? Isn't the Victor Right? 193 --
Part III What Can We Do About It? --
New Stories Are Necessary to Change the World 218 --
Touching the Sacred 223 --
Learn to Create Awareness 229 --
Lessons from a Monk 234 --
Secret of "Enough" 243 --
Respect Other Cultures and Communities 249 --
Renounce War Against Any Living Thing 257 --
Look into the Face of G-d 260 --
Change the Focus of How We Use Technology 263 --
Modern-Day Tribe: Intentional Community 274 --
Reinventing Our Daily Life and Rituals 293 --
We Have Much to Learn ... and Even More to Remember 301.