Lester Brown
Lester Brown
Lester Russel Brownis a United States environmental analyst, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C. BBC Radio commentator Peter Day calls him "one of the great pioneer environmentalists."...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth28 March 1934
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Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse.
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There is growing recognition in China that they have to make some changes ... though it has not yet publicly taken the form of saying the western economic model is not going to work for us.
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Humanity's collective demands have exceeded the earth's regenerative capacity by 26 percent,
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They?re losing 900 square miles of either grazing land or crop land per year.
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They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China.
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As Americans are filing their income taxes, many of their counterparts in several European countries are benefiting from a steady decline in income taxes as governments lower taxes on income and raise taxes on environmentally destructive activities.
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The transition from a world of expanding oil to one of shrinking oil will be a shift of seismic proportions. Oil prices may climb higher than any we can readily imagine.
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The transition from a world of expanding oil to one of shrinking oil will be a shift of seismic proportions. Oil prices may climb higher than any we can readily imagine,
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Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas and increasingly destructive storms.
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Rural communities welcome wind farms because they provide income to farmers and ranchers, skilled jobs, cheap electricity, and additional tax revenue to upgrade schools and maintain roads.
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We're putting the supermarket in competition with the corner filling station for the output of the farm.
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The fossil-fuel based, auto-centered economy of the United States threatens not only the world energy supply, but also the climate,
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The fossil-fuel based, auto-centered economy of the United States threatens not only the world energy supply, but also the climate,
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The challenge is to build a new economy and to do it at wartime speed before we miss so many of the nature's deadlines that the economic system begins to unravel.