ENERGY SHORTAGES/RISING COSTS
IRAN'S NUCLEAR THREAT
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
THE IMPLOSION OF THE MIDDLE EAST
THE BOOMING INDIA/CHINA MIDDLE CLASS
THE SELF SABOTAGE OF PARTISAN PARALYSIS
VIRULENT EXTREMISM
These seven threats bring grave danger to our survival as the wealthiest power on earth -- each gaining rapidly in strength, converging almost unseen.
Combined they may bring unrecoverable loss, and an end to life as we have known it. By the end of President Obama's first term, we shall know with abundant clarity whether we can still control our destiny, or have begun a descent into economic blight whence there is no return.
"Thought provoking with its educated and deep insight to the REAL problems facing
US -- now and for a LONG TIME TO COME - if we don't start paying attention. It shows what we've been doing and how long we have been going down this 'slippery slope' to oblivion as a Super Power. I could hardly put it down. Can't wait for his next book!" Dwight- HR, CO Small business owner/operator. [Review posted on Barnes and Noble Website 04/02/08]
"Please take this diatribe as a tremendous compliment of your first book," wrote Jon, a Wall Street executive. "Not much of what I hear or read these days stimulates this level of contemplation."
"What a wondrous compilation of the critical issues of our times . . . effective, hard hitting, and challenging." Bernard W., prominent anti-war activist.
'Seven Deadly Threats to America' analyzes seven of the most intractable challenges facing America. It describes the levels on which each threat is so intertwined with the other six, that all must be dealt with together.
Most urgently, the solutions
available demand immediate action from our leaders. Time is not on our side.
As
one imminent example, if the Strait of Hormuz is shut down by Iran - choking off 40% of the world's oil and plunging financial markets into chaos - exactly what actions will the new administration propose, in order to resolve such a crisis?
The book is written as a primer rather than as a scholarly treatise for specialists. Yet it is highly analytical, requiring a careful read, and sets forth specific solutions, including a win/win solution for illegal immigration.
It introduces a set of actions that reverses the recent shift of power to aggressive nations, mitigates the causes of global warming, and strengthens our national security.
Curtis Bernard Schmidt is a clinical psychologist and a former Jesuit. He has studied at St. Louis University, the Sorbonne de Paris, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He holds a Licentiate in Philosophy, a Licentiate cum laude in Sacred Theology, and a Doctorate in Developmental and Clinical Psychology. An educator, author, research psychologist and clinical practitioner for over four decades, he taught at St. Louis University in the early 1960's. Following studies at the Sorbonne, he was in 1967 appointed Jesuit Chaplain at U.S. Army Europe HQ, in Heidelberg, Germany. There he became an advisor to Gen. Gilles Turcotte, Comdr. of Canadian NATO forces, on the integration of the spiritual and military life, while the latter was his mentor on political/military issues in his ministry to soldiers going off to Vietnam. In 1971 he was commissioned to develop the Sacred Heart Parish Survey of Catholic attitudes following Vatican II. Achieving national recognition in the Catholic press, it was featured in The Denver Post, April, 1972. He specializes in the assessment of attitudes, mind sets and modes of construal, and has published op-ed commentaries in The Denver Post, The Rocky Mountain News, The Independent of Colorado Springs, and The Denver Business Journal.