Author: Lester R. Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Keywords: third, civilization, save, mobilizing, plan
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-01-16
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0393330877
ISBN-13: 9780393330878

"How to build a more just world and save the planet....We should all heed Brown’s advice."—Bill ClintonIn this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The world faces many environmental trends of disruption and decline, including rising temperatures and spreading water shortage. In addition to these looming threats, we face the peaking of oil, annual population growth of 70 million, a widening global economic divide, and a growing list of failing states. The scale and complexity of issues faci

Author: Lester R. Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: earth, outgrowing
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0393327256
ISBN-13: 9780393327250

How human demands are outstripping the earth’s capacities—and what we need to do about it. Ever since 9/11, many have considered al Queda to be the leading threat to global security, but falling water tables in countries that contain more than half the world’s people and rising temperatures worldwide pose a far more serious threat. Spreading water shortages and crop-withering heat waves are shrinking grain harvests in more and more countries, making it difficult for the world’s farmers to feed 70 million more people each year. The risk is that tightening food supplies co

Author: Lester R. Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: economy, earth, building, eco
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-11-05
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0393321932
ISBN-13: 9780393321937

Lester Brown, "the guru of the global environmental movement" (The Telegraph of Calcutta), argues that, like the Sumerian and Mayan civilizations, our economy is fast destroying its environmental support systems, threatening future generations. The challenge is to restructure the global economy, replacing our fossil fuel-based, automobile-centered, throwaway economy with a new one that is environmentally sustainable. Brown outlines his vision of the new economy. It will be powered not with fossil fuels but with solar and wind energy. Its urban transport systems will be centered not around the

Author: Lester R. Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: civilization, trouble, stress, planet, rescuing, plan
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-09
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 039305859X
ISBN-13: 9780393058598

A bold new plan for those concerned about rising temperatures, population projections, and spreading water scarcity. Lester Brown notes that if the environmental trends of recent decades continue, the global economy will soon begin to unravel. The food sector, he believes, is the most vulnerable. Record-high temperatures and falling water tables are already taking the edge off grain harvests in some countries, including China, the world’s largest grain producer. The wake-up call will come, Brown believes, when 1.3 billion Chinese consumers with an $80 billion trade surplus start co

Author: Lester R. Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: environmental, alert, series, worldwatch, planet, china, wake, small, feed
Number of Pages: 163
Published: 1995-09
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0393038971
ISBN-13: 9780393038972

This work discusses the consequences for the world’s food supply of rapidly increasing prosperity in China and the "Tiger" economies of the Far East. It argues that the prospects of food production keeping pace with growing population and growing consumer demands for protein are not good.

Author: Lester R. Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: substantially, revised, civilization, save, mobilizing, plan
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-10-05
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0393337197
ISBN-13: 9780393337198

“[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington Post As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined even a year ago. For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, we have begun investing in energy sources that can last forever. Plan B 4.0 explores both the nature o

Authors:Lester R. Brown, Christopher Flavin, Sandra Postel,
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd
Keywords: economy, worldwatch, environmental, alert, global, sustainable, planet, shape, environmentally, saving
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1992-06-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1853831336
ISBN-13: 9781853831331