Withering 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

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

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