Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble

?Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse,? says Lester Brown in Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble. ?Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,? says Brown, President and Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based independent environmental research organization. Although it is obvious that no society can survive the decline of its environmental support systems, many people are not yet convinced of the need for economic restructuring. But this is changing now that China has eclipsed the United States in the consumption of most basic resources, Brown notes in Plan B 2.0, which was produced with major funding from the Lannan Foundation and the U.N. Population Fund.