Plan B 3.0 Quotes

“Saving civilization is not a spectator sport. Each”
― Lester Russell Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“Industry, including the production of plastics, fertilizers, steel, cement, and paper, accounts for more than 30 percent of world energy consumption.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“In the new world we are entering, protecting the diversity of life on earth is no longer simply a matter of setting aside tracts of land, fencing them off, and calling them parks and preserves. Success in this effort depends also on stabilizing both climate and population.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“Forest losses from clearing land for farming and ranching, usually by burning, are concentrated in the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin, and Borneo.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“China has gone on a logging orgy outside its borders, often illegally, to procure logs from Indonesia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, and Siberia. And now Chinese logging firms are moving into the Amazon and Congo Basin.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“First the trees go, then the soil.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“We have put the extinction clock on a fast-forward.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“No one knows exactly how many lakes have disappeared over the last half-century, but we do know that thousands of them now exist only on old maps.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“Rising temperatures are boosting evaporation rates, altering rainfall patterns, and melting the glaciers that feed rivers during the dry season.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“A 2005 study, Impacts of a Warming Artic, concluded that the Artic is warming almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“Higher temperatures can reduce or even halt photosynthesis, prevent pollination, and lead to crop dehydration.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“In 1997, climate change was discussed in the future tense. Today we discuss it in the present tense. It is no longer something that may happen. It is happening now.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“Crop ecologist estimate that for each 1-degree-Celsius rise in temperature above the norm during the growing season, we can expect a 10-percent decline in grain yields.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“Nature is the time keeper, but we cannot see the clock.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

“Much more energy is used to refrigerate and prepare food in the home than is used to produce it in the first place.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization