World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse - Hardcover

Brown, Lester R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393080293 ISBN 13: 9780393080292

Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues Lester R. Brown skillfully distills in World on the Edge. Bringing decades of research and analysis into play, he provides the responses needed to reclaim our future.

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Lester Brown is the president of Earth Policy Institute, an organization dedicated to building a sustainable future. Described by the Washington Post as "one of the world's most influential thinkers," Brown started his career as a tomato farmer. Shortly after earning a degree in agricultural science, he spent six months living in rural India, where he became intimately familiar with the food/population issue. Brown later became head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's International Agricultural Development Service. In 1974 he founded the Worldwatch Institute and in 2001 Earth Policy Institute. He has received twenty-five honorary degrees and numerous awards, including the 1987 United Nations Environment Prize, a MacArthur Foundation "genius award," and the 1994 Blue Planet Prize. He lives in Washington, DC.

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• Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393080293
• ISBN 13: 9780393080292
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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