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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 333.7 EAN: 9780393330878 Edition: 3 ISBN: 0393330877 Label: W. W. Norton Manufacturer: W. W. Norton Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: January 16, 2008 Publisher: W. W. Norton Studio: W. W. Norton Editorial Review: Product Description: "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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - An Excellent, Comprehensive Analysis... Lester R. Brown presents an excellent, comprehensive analysis and discussion of the major ecological and social challenges threatening humanity with the possibility of extinction. These include problems with oil and food supplies; climate change and rising sea levels; water shortages; depletion of natural resources; and warnings about possible tipping points in failing social and economic systems. The most concerning factor is global heating, which could reach a tipping point beyond which it would ... Read More Rating:  - Deeply Insightful but Very ReadableThis is one of the finest books to summarize in layman's terms both the problems and solutions to our unsustainable, industrialized economy. What distinguishes Lester Brown form other authors on the topic of sustainability is the ease of readability of his books. That definitely cannot be said about other, overly laborious works that mostly appeal to policy makers or academia. Version 3.0 (2007) here expands where Plan B 2.0 left off and what Eco Economy started in 2001. There is much ... Read More Rating: - Saving Civilization Won't Be This EasyLester Brown gives us a solid plan to save civilization from the ravages of Peak Oil and Global Warming. But at $190 billion a year, it just sounds too easy. In fact Peak Oil is now becoming Peak Everything (the title of Richard Heinberg's latest book), driving huge price increases in many key commodities. This means that the actual cost is likely to become twice Brown's estimate or more, the longer we delay, the higher the price. To keep costs down will take a global mobilization, ... Read More Rating: - exhaustive and detail oriented This is a difficult book to get wrapped around. Which is good news, and then again it is bad news. The good news is that this is an excellent and wide-sweeping run-up to the current health of our Earth. Such topics as Our Socially Divided World, Eradicating Poverty, Designing Cities For People, and The Great Mobilization are spread over 287 pages of dense statistics and research, backed up by nearly another 100 pages of footnotes. The bad news? There is far more content ... Read More Rating: - If you don't believe we are all in for some serious challenges...Then you must read this book. It clearly lays how mankind is on the road to ruin if we don't change our ways and the U.S. is no ways immune. It is hopeful also to read about tangible plans on how we can change our ways and build a world for all of us to thrive in, maybe compramising just a little bit for the better well-being of all of us. The book is extremely well writting and the documentation of sources is impressive. My only complaint is that some of it is unessecarily redundant, but I don't blame the ... Read More |
