Plan B 2.0
(Lester R. Brown)
Lester R. Brown offers an updated and expanded version of his previous work Plan B, published in 2003. In this version, Plan B 2.0, he offers a frighteningly realistic view of our world as we face the beginning of the 21st Century. His painstaking research shows that guiltlessly enjoying an unsustainable economy will be impossible in the relatively near future. Mr. Brown outlines many of the areas where the world will find trouble if changes are not made. These troubles include the implications of world-wide oil supply not meeting world demand, falling water tables, rising world temperatures and its effect on crops, cities, and the weather, and growing populations and its effect on the world food supply, just to name a few. He also gives a thought provoking assessment of the future as India and China's rapidly developing economies continue to take their toll on the world's finite resources. His book is not merely to highlight what seems like inevitable world catastrophe, but to offer thoughtful and innovative solutions to these enormous challenges facing our world. The first section of six chapters serves as the background for understanding his second section where he offers his response to the coming world catastrophe of blind complacency and ignorance. These five chapters of recommendations are a fascinating collection of proposed actions ranging from organizing universal basic education to thoughtfully control population growth, regenerating fisheries to help re-stock the world's oceans and create jobs, harnessing wind, solar and geothermal energy, and beginning to re-design cities and urban transportation in line with the goal of sustainability. The last section focuses on a profoundly positive outlook by imagining what is possible if people take the challenges in this book seriously and are committed to try to take action with the goal of achieving a sustainable future for generations.
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