Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a far more serious issue. Excessive pumping for irrigation to satisfy food needs today almost guarantees… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the worst pollution,… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share
The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share
The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy. World wind generating… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share
