Lester R . Brown
Plan B 2.0
Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
Updated and expanded
In this new edition, Lester Brown
outlines a survival strategy for our early
twenty-first civilization.
THE WORLD FACES numerous environmental trends
of disruption and decline such as rising temperatures,
falling water tables, shrinking forests, melting glaciers,
collapsing fisheries, and rising sea levels. In Plan B,
Lester R. Brown notes that in ignoring nature's deadlines
for dealing with these environmental issues we
risk the disruption of economic progress.
In addition to these environmental trends, the
world faces the peaking of oil, the addition of 70
million people per year, a widening global economic
divide, and the spread of international terrorism. The
global scale and growing complexity of issues facing
our fast-forward world have no precedent.
With Plan A, business as usual, we have neglected
these issues so long that the only effective response
now is a World War II–type mobilization such as after
the attack on Pearl Harbor.
"Exciting . . . a masterpiece!"—Ted Turner
"Brown makes a compelling case from his unique
vantage point, having spent 30 years studying the
state of the world."—Mother Earth News
LESTER R. BROWN, president of the Earth
Policy Institute, is one of the world's most
widely published authors with books in more
than forty languages. A MacArthur Fellow,
he lives in Washington, DC.
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