This manual pertains to the book "Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)" by Lester R. Brown, published by W. W. Norton & Company. This substantially revised edition, released on January 17, 2008, presents a comprehensive survival strategy for the early twenty-first century, addressing critical environmental trends such as rising temperatures and water scarcity, alongside challenges like oil depletion, population growth, economic disparity, and failing states. The author emphasizes the unprecedented scale and complexity of these global issues, advocating for a World War II-type mobilization as the only effective response to the widespread disruption and decline facing civilization.
The scope of this manual encompasses the detailed analysis and proposed solutions presented in Lester R. Brown's work. It serves as a guide to understanding the interconnected environmental and societal challenges and outlines a pragmatic, action-oriented plan for global mobilization. The manual aims to equip readers with the knowledge and framework necessary to comprehend the urgency of these issues and to advocate for and implement the necessary systemic changes to ensure the long-term sustainability of civilization.
"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.
Author: Brown, Lester R.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)
Pages: 00416 (Encrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2008-01-17
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780393330878
Category: Nature : Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
"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.
Author: Brown, Lester R.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)
Pages: 00416 (Encrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2008-01-17
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780393330878
Category: Nature : Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
