Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (Updated and Expanded Edition)

Brown, Lester R.

ISBN 10: 0393328317 / ISBN 13: 9780393328318

Published by Norton, New York, 2006

About this Item

365pp. Extremities lightly rubbed; several pages & rear cover creased. Endnotes.

Seller Inventory # 237570

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (Updated and Expanded Edition)
• Publisher: Norton, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393328317
• ISBN 13: 9780393328318
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Updated.
• Condition: VG-

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Synopsis

In this new edition, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first civilization.

The world faces numerous environmental trends of disruption and decline such as rising temperatures, falling water tables, shrinking forests, melting glaciers, collapsing fisheries, and rising sea levels. In Plan B, Lester R. Brown notes that in ignoring nature's deadlines for dealing with these environmental issues we risk the disruption of economic progress.

In addition to these environmental trends, the world faces the peaking of oil, the addition of 70 million people per year, a widening global economic divide, and the spread of international terrorism. The global scale and growing complexity of issues facing our fast-forward world have no precedent.

About the Author

Lester R. Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, is one of the world's most widely published authors with books in more than forty languages. A MacArthur Fellow, he lives in Washington, DC.