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In lost in the sun, trent decides that he will speak the truth. The zeitgeist dimmed the surface and seized the soul our mother wept behind the fence and we drained her blood, then forgetting her face and hide from everyone. The last hours of ancient sunlight is likely the most important book ever written. The fate of the world and what we can do before its too late by thom hartmann at. As the worlds population explodes, cultures and species are wiped out, and we have now reached the halfway point of our supplies of oil, humans the. Thom reads from his book last hours of ancient sunlight and about the lives of the ancients.