Lester Russell Brown Livres

Report assessing society's ability to sustain itself without hurting the next generation

Examines the impacts of population growth on the global resources and services, like food, fresh water, fisheries, jobs, education, income and health. This book explores methods such as the expansion of international family planning, investment in educating young people in the developing world and promotion of a shift towards smaller families.

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Focusing on the urgent need for environmental reform, this volume highlights the detrimental impact of our current consumption-driven economy on ecosystems. It emphasizes the transition to a sustainable economy that prioritizes renewable energy and resource recycling. The authors present this challenge as not only vital for ecological preservation but also as a significant investment opportunity. With accessible language and informative charts, it serves as a crucial resource for leaders and citizens engaged in the global environmental movement.

Focusing on the urgent issue of food scarcity, this book evaluates the current challenges in food production and outlines actionable strategies to enhance output. It emphasizes the need for immediate measures to stabilize population growth while addressing the pressing global hunger crisis. Published for the World Food Conference in Rome, it serves as a critical resource in the Worldwatch Environmental Alert series, aiming to raise awareness and prompt discussion on sustainable solutions for food security.

Provides alternative solutions to such global problems as population control, emerging water shortages, eroding soil, and global warming, outlining a detailed survival strategy for the civilization of the future.

"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 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.

The author draws on his childhood experiences on a small farm to explore global environmental issues. His early entrepreneurial spirit is highlighted by a successful tomato-growing venture he started with his brother, which flourished into a significant operation producing 1.5 million pounds of tomatoes by 1958. Brown’s practical background informs his influential insights into sustainability and environmental challenges, making him a notable voice in the discourse on these critical topics.

The book addresses the alarming decline in global food security, highlighting critically low grain stocks and a significant increase in the World Food Price Index over the past decade. It explores the growing number of people facing hunger and the consequent rise in political unrest, emphasizing the urgent need for solutions to this escalating crisis.

Argues that, like Sumerian and Mayan civilization, the world economy is fast destroying its environmental support, threatening future generations. Outlines the author's vision of a new environmentally sustainable economy .