false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170432575m/53845.jpg 53845 3 <B>In this new edition, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first civilization.</B><BR><BR>The world faces numerous environmental trends of disruption and decline such as rising temperatures, falling water tables, shrinking forests, melting glaciers, collapsing fisheries, and rising sea levels. In <I>Plan B</I>, Lester R. Brown notes that in ignoring nature's deadlines for dealing with these environmental issues we risk the disruption of economic progress.<BR><BR>In addition to these environmental trends, the world faces the peaking of oil, the addition of 70 million people per year, a widening global economic divide, and the spread of international terrorism. The global scale and growing complexity of issues facing our fast-forward world have no precedent.<BR><BR?With Plan A, business as usual, we have neglected these issues so long that the only effective response now is a World War II-type mobilization such as after the attack on Pearl Harbor. 2790181 23 1 2006 Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble total:121|5:39|4:40|3:31|2:11|1:0| 121 470 231 25 5 0 false false Sat Apr 25 23:55:21 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 23:10:17 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 16:23:24 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 16:25:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 17 14:27:44 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 14:35:30 -0700 2008
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