Synopsis

In this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, 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. In Plan B 3.0, 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. Look inside Plan B 3.0on Google Books.

Reviews

Review by Treehugger >>
First off, a disclaimer: Lester Brown has been a hero of mine (and featured on TreeHugger TV interviews as well as posting himself on climate refugees) at least since 2003, when in front of a gathering of sustainability experts in a Portland conference room I asked him why he didn't help us all out and run for U.S. president. Brown laughed with the rest of the crowd, then moved right on to the next question. He obviously had a much bigger agenda in mind - such as saving the entire planet… More >>

Review by Grinning Planet >>
Falling water tables, soil erosion, and advancing deserts threaten our agricultural lands; drinking water shortages afflict much of the world's people and threaten to affect many more in the years to come; the peaking of global oil supplies threatens the world's economy; the collapse of many of the planet's fisheries threatens one of the world's best protein sources; and global warming threatens everything… More >>

Review by Guardian News >>
This is a scary book. Last summer, in a single week, an area of Arctic ice twice the size of Britain disappeared. Glaciers are melting so quickly that some scientists say sea levels could rise by two metres this century. Rising temperatures, shrinking forests, disappearing species - we are destroying the planet and endangering civilisation. Plan A is business as usual and, as Lester Brown makes abundantly clear, that is no longer an option. More >>