Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal,… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
We know what we have to do. And we know how to do it. If we fail to convert our self-destructing economy… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Another agricultural trend of growing concern is the increased nutrient content of coastal waters resulting from fertilizer runoff in agricultural regions. Augmented… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It is not… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
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… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
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… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
