Natural gas Quotes by Lester R. Brown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not.

— Lester R. Brown

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

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