"How to build a more just world and save the planet....We should all heed Brown's advice."--Bill Clinton 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 precedent With 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. .
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Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised):
Brown's contemporary plan for saving human civilization is a "MUST READ" on the primary reading source for my doctoral International Communications course. My environmentalist-professor sensed that we not only hadn't read this book but that we didn't care enough about the frightening discoveries that each chapter of the book brings to the surface of the reader's mind. Just the chapter alone on Water Shortages springing food shortages, around the world is enough to make you realize these topics address... more info
Brown Has It Right:
Curiously, not many people I speak with have heard of Plan B, Plan B 2.0, nor Plan B 3.0. This is a shame, as this book, following in the footsteps of Brown's previous works, is one of the most well written and clearly described work on what is going wrong with our society and with our current way of living. Not just a polemic on the behavior of the U.S., but of all states that seem unwilling to accept a reality that is sure to cost us all very dearly.
Good info, lackluster read:
I had to read this for my generic humanities class. Of the five books I read that semester, this one is by far my least favorite (I didn't even finish it, it was quite boring). However, the primary benefit to reading this book is that Mr. Brown takes the time to explain the facts behind certain basic issues that no one ever pays attention to, like water and food sustainability. With this book, my instructor was able to unite liberal and conservative minds into the mindset of, "How can we sustain... more info
Plan A:
This is an inspiring call to action, no doubt - although some of suggestions seem too tame to cause any real change and unlikely to occur, given that the magic 2020 is in almost 10 years and the reduction of global carbon dioxide emissions by 80% seems doubtful, even if US throws it's full weight behind Plan B - which given the current economic "climate" is unlikely. Then, you'll face developing nations who will likely want some payment in some form to keep them from escolating development with the common... more info
