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Brown, Lester Russell was born on March 28, 1934 in Bridgeton, New Jersey, United States. Son of Calvin C. and Delia (Smith) Brown.
( A bold new plan for those concerned about rising temper...)
A bold new plan for those concerned about rising temperatures, population projections, and spreading water scarcity. Lester Brown notes that if the environmental trends of recent decades continue, the global economy will soon begin to unravel. The food sector, he believes, is the most vulnerable. Record-high temperatures and falling water tables are already taking the edge off grain harvests in some countries, including China, the world's largest grain producer. The wake-up call will come, Brown believes, when 1.3 billion Chinese consumers with an $80 billion trade surplus start competing with Americans for U.S. grain, driving up food prices. Rising food prices could create political instability in low-income countries, disrupting global economic progress. At that point, it will be clear that business as usual―Plan A―is not working. In Plan B, Brown outlines a World War II-type mobilization to stabilize climate by restructuring the global energy economy and to stabilize population by investing heavily in health care, family planning, and the education of girls in developing countries.
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In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the view that the sun revolved around the earth, arguing instead that the earth revolved around the sun. His paper led to a revolution in thinking. In Lester Brown's brilliant and invigorating account of the industrial economy, he shows how a rethink of its fossil fuel-based, throwaway ethos is necessary to ensure that it works with, not against, the natural environment. The issue now is whether the environment is part of the economy or the economy is part of the environment. Brown argues the latter, pointing out that treating the environment as part of the economy has produced an economy that is destroying its natural support systems. One of the foremost experts on the new economic opportunities, Brown shows the vast economic potential and environmental gains that exist from eliminating the waste and destruction of current consumption. He describes how the global economy can be restructured to make it compatible with the earth's ecosystem so that economic progress can continue, with high standards of living and secure employment for all, while conserving resources and restoring the environment. In the new economy, wind farms replace coal mines, hydrogen-powered fuel cells replace internal combustion engines, and cities are designed for people, not cars. Eco-Economy is a map of how to get from here to there. It is an essential guide to the economy of the 21st century and will be compelling reading for business readers and environmentalists alike looking for ways to build a better future.
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This collection of articles, originally published in "World Watch" magazine, offers a diagnosis of environmental problems as well as a practical vision of an environmentally sound future. Contributors address global warming, renewable energy sources, pollution and deforestation.
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On the bicentennial of Malthus' legendary essay on the tendency of population to grow more rapidly than the food supply, this book examines the impacts of population growth on 19 global resources and services, including food, fresh water, fisheries, jobs, education, income and health. Despite current hype of a 'birth dearth' in parts of Europe and Japan, the fact remains that human numbers are projected to increase by over 3 billion by 2050. Populations in rapidly growing nations are in danger of outstripping the carrying capacity of their natural support systems and governments in such situations will find it increasingly hard to respond to crises such as AIDS, food and water shortages and mass unemployment. Beyond Malthus examines 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 which will represent the most humane response to the possible ravages of the population explosion.
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On the bicentennial of Malthus's legendary essay on the tendency for population to grow more rapidly than the food supply, the question facing the world is not whether population growth will slow, but how. Human demands are pressing up against more and more of the Earth's limits. This book from the Worldwatch Institute examines the impacts of population growth on global resources and services, including food, fresh water, fisheries, jobs, education, income, and health. Despite the current hype of a "birth dearth" in parts of Europe and Japan, the fact remains that human numbers are projected to increase by over 3 billion by 2050. Rapidly growing nations are likely to outstrip the carrying capacity of their natural support systems. Governments worn down by several decades of rapid population growth often cannot mobilize the resources necessary to cope with emerging threats such as new diseases, food and water shortages, and mass unemployment. Already, in several African nations, hunger, disease, and social disintegration are leading to rising death rates, checking the rapid growth of population. Either nations with surging populations will quickly shift to smaller families or nature will impose its own, less humane limits to growth. As the world enters the new millennium, no challenge is perhaps so urgent as the need to quickly reduce population growth. Pakistan's population is projected to increase from 148 million to 357 million, surpassing that of the United States before 2050. Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, and Swaziland, where over one-fifth of the adult population is infected with HIV, will likely reach population stability shortly after the year 2000, as AIDS-related deaths offset soaring birth rates. A Worldwatch Environmental Alert book. Newsmaking press conference on publication National press and television coverage Illustrated
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A lily pond, so the French riddle goes, contains a single leaf. Each day the number of leaves doubles—two leaves the second day, four the third, eight the fourth, and so on. Question: If the pond is completely full on the thirtieth day, when is it half full? Answer: On the Twenty-ninth day. The global lily pond in which four billion of us live may already be half full. Although UN projections show world population continuing to grow until it reaches ten to sixteen billion, Lester Brown believes this is unrealistic. In this fascinating analysis of the fisheries, forests, grasslands, and croplands—the author shows that the demands at current levels of population and per capita consumption often exceed the long-term carrying capacity. He documents the overfishing, deforestation, and overgrazing that are gradually undermining human life support systems. He also explains that with energy shortages anticipated in the early eighties and a projected downturn in world oil production in the early eighties and a projected downturn in world oil production in the early nineties, the world must quickly shift to renewable energy resources.
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( Award-winning environmental analyst Lester R. Brown and...)
Award-winning environmental analyst Lester R. Brown and his colleagues chart progress in building the eco-economy, an economy that is compatible with the earth's ecosystem. Brown explains, for example, why wind-generated electricity with its abundance and falling cost is emerging as the foundation of the new post-fossil fuel energy economy: now cheaper than electricity from coal, oil, or natural gas, it can be used to electrolyze water and produce hydrogen, the fuel of choice for the new fuel cell engines that every major automobile manufacturer is working on. And since an eco-economy relies heavily on recycling materials already in the system, such as steel and aluminum, we learn how, in this new economy, recycling industries will largely replace mining industries. Bringing together in one volume the essential Eco-Economy Updates that are distributed worldwide over the Internet and published in the world's leading newspapers, The Earth Policy Reader monitors the shift from the old economy to the new.
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(In this new edition, Lester Brown outlines a survival str...)
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.
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Chapters are: 1. Overview of the Late Twentieth Century; PART I: Inventory of mankind's Problems. The Environmental Crisis 3. The Widening Rich-Poor Gap 4. Marginal Men 5. From Countryside to City 6. The Hungry Majority; Part II: Keys to our future 7. The Educational Challenge 8. Stabilizing Human Population 9. Building East-West Bridges; PART III: Creating a Global Economy 10. The Growing Economic Interdependence of Nations 11. The Multinational Corporation 12. Restructuring the Global Economy; Part IV: Creating a Global Infrastructure 13. A Global Communications System 14. A Global Transport System 15. New Supranational Institutions; Part V: Shaping the future 16. Improving the Quality of Life 17. Changing Direction
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(The World Watch Reader on Global Environmental Issues (19...)
The World Watch Reader on Global Environmental Issues (1998) The World Watch Reader on Global Environmental Issues (1998) by Brown, Lester Russell ( Author ) Paperback Apr- 1998 Paperback Apr- 17- 1998
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Brown, Lester Russell was born on March 28, 1934 in Bridgeton, New Jersey, United States. Son of Calvin C. and Delia (Smith) Brown.
Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Science, Rutgers University, 1955. Master of Arts in Agricultural Economics, University Maryland, 1959. Master of Public Administration, Harvard University, 1962.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Dickinson College. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Maryland. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Franklin College.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Williams College. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Rutgers University. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Glassboro State College.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Tufts University. Doctor of Laws (honorary), College of Wooster. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Clark University.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Ripon College. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Otterbein College. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Pisa.
Doctor of Science (honorary), McGill University. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Notre Dame. Doctor of Public Service (honorary), Northland College.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), St. Lawrence University. Doctor of Science (honorary), Claremont College. Doctor of Social Science (honorary), Villanova University.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Westminster College, Utah. Doctor of Science (honorary), Westminster College, Pennsylvania. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Connecticut.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Ohio State University. Doctor of Science (honorary), Hitotsubashi University. Doctor of Science (honorary), Michigan State University.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Agronomic Science & Veterinary Medicine, Romania, 2010.
With Department of Agriculture, 1958—1969, administrator international agriculture development service, 1966-1969. Advisory to secretary United States Department Agriculture, Washington, 1965—1969. Senior fellow Overseas Development Council, 1969-1974.
President, founder Worldwatch Institute, Washington, 1974-2000, Earth Policy Institute, Washington, since 2001. Faculty Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, 1971, 1974. Guest scholar Aspen Institute, summers 1972-1974.
Senior advisory Japanese Ministry Agriculture, Forestry, & Fishery. Vice chairman Advisory Committee of the United States China Associate Environmental Education. Honorary professor University Shanghai, China, 2003.
Honorary professor University Shanghai, 2003, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2005.
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Member advisory committee Institute International Economics,United Nations Foundation, Eco-Policy Center/Rutgers University. Member board advisors International Fund for China's Environment. Board directors Institute for Sustainable Development, Poland.
Treasurer and board member Farview Foundation. Member advisory council International Fund for Agricultural Research. Advisor Clean Up the World Project, Australia, International Council Earth Day 2000.
Member advisory board Center for a New American Dream. Member national advisory board Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth). Member advisory committee Internews.
Member advisory board Green House Network. Board patrons International Network Green Planners. Member steering committee Ecological Cities Project, University Massachusetts.
Director Japan for Sustainability. Member advisory council Ecology channel. Honorary advisor Institute Environmental Culture.
Advisor Earth Focus, World Link television's Environmental News Program. Fellow World Business Academy. Member Council Foreign Relations, World Future Society, Cosmos Club, Sierra Club (advisory council for excellence in environmental engineering), Race Stop Global Warming (advisory board), Globalist (global advisory board), Habi Media (board directors), Global Footprint Network (advisory council member), Romanian Academy of Sciences, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Science (honorary advisor), Child Honoring (advisory council).
Married Shirley Ann Woolington, June 12, 1960 (divorced). Children: Brian, Brenda.