Plan B 3.0
Mobilizing to Save Civilization
By Lester R. Brown
(W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, 9780393330878, 398pp.)
Publication Date: January 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Google eBook, Hardcover, Hardcover, Paperback
Categories: Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
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Description
In 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 facing our fast-forward world have no precedentWith Plan A, business as usual, we have neglected these issues overly long. In Plan B 3.0, Lester R. Brown warns that the only effective response now is a World War II-type mobilization like that in the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Friday, Oct 2, 2009
Lester Brown, president and founder of the Earth Policy Institute, argues for an aggressive increase in renewable energy production, better energy-efficiency standards and a return to human-centered urban design in his latest book, Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. More at NPR.org
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