Climate Quotes by Lester R. Brown

14 Climate quotes by Lester R. Brown

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Lester R. Brown’s concise take on climate issues comes through in these 14 remarks, offering a solid starter for anyone wanting his environmental viewpoint.

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Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal,…

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“In 1997, climate change was discussed in the future tense. Today we discuss it in the present tense. It is no longer…

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If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline…

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The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.

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Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single…

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Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from…

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The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy…

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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.…

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The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps…

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Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23…

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Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the…

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The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It…

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A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and…

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The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy. World…

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A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused…

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We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil…

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The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the…

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In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the…

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We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's…

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The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature…

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