Lester Brown’s Posts

• Inferno on Earth: Wildfires spreading as temperatures rise 1

  Posted 1 day, 12 hours agoFuture firefighters have their work cut out for them. Even as more people move into fire-prone wildlands around the world, the intense droughts and higher temperatures that come with global warming are likely to make fires more frequent and severe in many areas.

• The Copenhagen Conference on food security 7

  Posted 1 week, 3 days agoFor the 193 national delegations gathering in Copenhagen for the U.N. Climate Change Conference, the reasons for concern about climate change vary widely. For delegations from low-lying island countries, the principal concern is rising sea level. For countries of East Asia and the Caribbean, more powerful storms and storm surges are a growing worry. This climate change conference is about all these things, and many more, but in a very fundamental sense, it is a conference about food security.

• Three models of social change 6

  Posted 2 weeks, 2 days agoCan we change fast enough? When thinking about the enormous need for social change as we attempt to move the world economy onto a sustainable path, Lester Brown finds it useful to look at various models of change.

• By the numbers -- data highlights on poverty and population 1

  Posted 3 weeks, 1 day agoIn Chapter 7 of the recently released [em]Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization[/em], Lester Brown lays out the Plan B goals for eradicating poverty and stabilizing population.

• The rising tide of environmental refugees 2

  Posted 4 weeks, 1 day agoOur early twenty-first century civilization is being squeezed between advancing deserts and rising seas. Measured by the biologically productive land area that can support human habitation, the earth is shrinking.

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