Lester R. Brown Quotes

• One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come

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  Our Generation, Choices, Generations

  Lester R. Brown (2013). “Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth”, p.276, Routledge

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• Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.

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  Sports, Civilization, Saving

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Entre las tendencias medioambientales que minan nuestro futuro están la disminución de los bosques, la expansión de los desiertos, el descenso de las capas freáticas, el colapso de los caladeros, la desaparición de especies y el aumento de las temperaturas. El aumento de la temperatura trae consigo olas de calor que marchitan las cosechas, tormentas más destructivas, sequías más intensas, más incendios forestales y, por supuesto, el deshielo. Estamos cruzando umbrales naturales que no podemos ver y violando plazos que no reconocemos.

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  Fall, Ice, Fire

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• No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

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  Civilization, Support Systems, Growth

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• Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.

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  Support Systems, Leader, Political

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.8, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not.

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  Numbers, Earth, Natural

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• We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's people are satisfied, and a world that will allow us to think of ourselves as civilized. This is entirely doable.

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  Inspiring, Thinking, Support Systems

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• El socialismo fracasó porque no supo decir la verdad económica. El capitalismo puede fracasar porque no supo decir la verdad ecológica.

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  Environmental, May, Failing

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• It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to cities and industry, they will import more grain. As they do so, water scarcity will be transmitted across national borders via the grain trade. Aquifer depletion is a largely invisible threat, but that does not make it any less real.

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  Country, Real, Aquifers

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• The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps expanding until it bursts, leading to economic decline. Or we can adopt Plan B and be the generation that stabilizes population, eradicates poverty, and stabilizes climate. Historians will record the choice, but it is ours to make.

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  Choices, Generations, Records

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• In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day.

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  Air, Breathing, Cities

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

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  Country, Government, Causes

  "Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization" by Lester R. Brown, www.scientificamerican.com. May 2009.

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• Se están sentando las bases para que tanto la energía eólica como las células solares se conviertan en piedras angulares de la nueva economía energética.

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  Cells, Wind, Foundation

  Lester R. Brown, Michael Renner (2014). “Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future”, p.16, Routledge

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• La subida de los precios del petróleo ha centrado la atención mundial en el agotamiento de las reservas de crudo. Pero el agotamiento de los recursos hídricos subterráneos debido al bombeo excesivo es un problema mucho más grave. El bombeo excesivo para regar y satisfacer las necesidades alimentarias de hoy casi garantiza una disminución de la producción de alimentos mañana.

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  Oil, Issues, Water

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• The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

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  Junk, Aberration, Half

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.229, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused on the health of the planet and the poor than on material acquisitions and military might. While it is a fundamentally new endeavor, with many uncertainties, it is far less risky than continuing with business as usual.

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  Military, Order, Environmental

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• Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

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  Doors, Growth, Enemy

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• If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground

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  Progress, Principles, Doe

  Lester R. Brown (2013). “Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth”, p.77, Routledge

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• We know what we have to do. And we know how to do it. If we fail to convert our self-destructing economy into one that is environmentally sustainable, future generations will be overwhelmed by environmental degradation and social disintegration. Simply stated, if our generation does not turn things around, our children may not have the option of doing so.

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  Children, Our Generation, Self

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• The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

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  Use, Fuel, World

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• The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy was produced by burning something - oil, coal, or natural gas - leading to the carbon emissions that have come to define our economy. The new energy economy harnesses the energy in wind, the energy coming from the sun, and heat from within the earth itself.

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  Oil, Carbon Emissions, Wind

  "Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization". Book by Lester R. Brown, October 5, 2009.

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• Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

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  Insecurity, Growth, Environmental

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• Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

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  Challenges, Humanity, Environmental

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• Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble-one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.

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  Aquifers, Land, Civilization

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• We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.

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  Oil, Car, Effort

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