Challenge Quote by Lester R. Brown

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

— Lester R. Brown

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

— Lester R. Brown

Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

— Lester R. Brown

Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.

— 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

Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part…

— Marsha Blackburn

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

— Jerry Brown

Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.

— Michael Shermer

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

— Ronald Reagan

Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease.…

— John Shimkus

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

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