Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Third Edition

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Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Third Edition
by Lester R. Brown
from W. W. Norton

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• 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 be... more info

• Deeply Insightful but Very Readable
  This 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 valuable news and... more info

• Saving Civilization Won't Be This Easy
  Lester 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, with many agreements... more info

• 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 than is of interest to... more info

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