How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse
Lester Brown
Earth Policy Institute
144 pages, 210 x 148 mm
Publisher:
Earthscan from Routledge
Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues skillfully distilled in World on the Edge. Bringing decades of research and analysis into play, it provides the responses needed to reclaim our future.
In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.
We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues skilfully distilled in World on the Edge. Bringing decades of research and analysis into play, it provides the responses needed to reclaim our future.
1. Has the Decline of Civilization Begun?
I. THE CHALLENGE
2. Falling Water Tables and Shrinking Harvests
3. Melting Ice and Food Security
4. Eroding Soils and Expanding Deserts
5. The Emerging Politics of Food Scarcity
6. Environmental Refugees: Millions on the Move
7. Mounting Stresses, Failing States
II. THE RESPONSE - PLAN B
8. Building an Energy Efficient Global Economy
9. Harnessing Wind, Solar, and Geothermal Energy
10. Eradicating Poverty, Stabilizing Population, and Rescuing Failing States
11. Restoring the Economy's Natural Support Systems
12. Feeding Eight Billion
III. WATCHING THE CLOCK
13. Can We Rescue Civilization?
Lester R. Brown is president of the Earth Policy Institute, a research organization in Washington, DC. He has been honoured with numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship, United Nations Environment Prize and Japan's Blue Planet Prize.
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