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Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised) [Paperback]

Lester R. Brown
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January 17, 2008

"How to build a more just world and save the planet....We should all heed Brown's advice."—Bill Clinton

In this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The world faces many environmental trends of disruption and decline, including rising temperatures and spreading water shortage. In addition to these looming threats, we face the peaking of oil, annual population growth of 70 million, a widening global economic divide, and a growing list of failing states. The scale and complexity of issues facing our fast-forward world have no precedent

With Plan A, business as usual, we have neglected these issues overly long. In Plan B 3.0, Lester R. Brown warns that the only effective response now is a World War II-type mobilization like that in the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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“This book provides excellent insights for academics, students and lay readers alike... in tackling a host of pressing issues in a single book, Plan B 2.0 makes for an eye-opening read.” (The Times Higher Education Supplement)

“Brown is an effective Cassandra. His picture of climate-change-induced chaos is terrifying and convincing.” (Andrew Simms - New Scientist)

About the Author

Lester R. Brown is the founder of the Earth Policy and Worldwatch Institutes. He has been honored with numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the United Nations Environment Prize, and twenty-five honorary degrees. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Substantially Revised edition (January 17, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0393330877
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393330878
  • Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.1 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #201,389 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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LESTER R. BROWN, founder and President of Earth Policy Institute, has been described by the Washington Post as "one of the world's most influential thinkers" and as "the guru of the global environmental movement" by The Telegraph of Calcutta. The author of numerous books, including World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, chapters, articles, etc., he helped pioneer the concept of environmentally sustainable development. His principal research areas include food, population, water, climate change, and renewable energy. The recipient of scores of awards and honorary degrees, he is widely sought as a speaker. In 1974, he founded Worldwatch Institute, of which he was President for its first 26 years. As President, he launched the World Watch Papers, the Worldwatch/Norton books, the annual State of the World, World Watch magazine, the annual Vital Signs, and the Institute's News Briefs. For relaxation, Lester runs

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135 of 146 people found the following review helpful
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I have followed Lester Brown's dedication to evaluating the state of our planet for over a decade, and wrote to the Nobel Committee urging them to recognize him, Herman Daly, and Paul Kawkins and the two Lovins instead of Al Gore. They have all done a great deal more of the heavy lifting.

I decided to purchase this book when Medard Gabel, creator of the analog World Game with Buchminster Fuller, gave me a budget for saving the planet that totals no more than $230 billion a year (at a time when we spend $1.3 trillion waging war).

I've gone through the book and consider it to be a best in class effort, a seminal work no one else on the planet could have produced. In the author's chosen area of focus, there is no other book like this one. However, some other books are easier to read and understand, such as High Noon 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them, and others do a better job of addressing all ten high-level threats to Humanity and Earth, such as A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility--Report of the Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change.

Here are a few highlights:

+ Book is offered free online (but the hard copy is much better deal, easier to work with, mark up and return to as a reference....use the online version to search for specifics.

+ The Introduction is clear and inspiring. This book is loaded with carefully collected facts ably presented.
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52 of 54 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Single Volume on Saving the Earth, Period. January 8, 2008
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This is the third iteration of the Plan B series. They just keep getting better. This book delivers beautifully in laying out the unprecedented challenges faced by humanity as we move into the 21st century. Plan B thoughtfully examines the critical global issues of our time: fresh water scarcity, soil depletion, deforestation; desertification; fisheries collapse; habitat destruction; species extinction; extreme weather; global warming, energy policy, and human population growth. Though the subject matter is sobering, it is presented in highly engaging and convincing fashion. Lester Brown and his support team show that we humans are our own worst enemy. But the book is hardly all gloom and doom. There is a decidedly wise and positive course offered in these pages. Plan B shows that we are capable of cleaning up the mess we have made of our planet. It includes a clear, reasonable, and immanently doable public policy blueprint that offers hope for an equitable, life affirming, and environmentally sustainable future for all life on Earth. Anyone interested in a single volume that will get them up to speed on the world's most pressing issues should look no farther. Plan B 3.0 by Lester Brown is as good as it gets.
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Lester Brown is the creator of Worldwatch Institute. I have read every one of its State of the World Reports since the first one came out in 1984.

A few years ago he quit Worldwatch and founded a new organization, the Earth Policy Institute.

This book provides answers about what to do. Too many environmentalists seem to concentrate 99% of their efforts on talk of gloom and doom and only 1% of their efforts to realistic, practical ideas about what to do about the very real problems they worry about. By contrast, Brown and his staff at Earth Policy Institute have taken the time to put together a game plan about how to create a genuinely sustainable society. Nobody is going to agree with all their ideas. I'm a bit skeptical about some of the cost estimates. However, at least Brown has cost estimates. Sadly, very few people or organizations have put togther the kind of detailed plan that is presented here. Buy this book. Read it. Think about it. Discuss it. It creates a solid framework for debate about our planet's future. For anybody who is interested I have lists of some other good books and documentary films on similar subjects on my Amazon profile page.
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Unless you've been taking the sleep cure in Switzerland for the last few years, skip the first section of Lester R. Brown's book. "A civilization in trouble" --- roger that, and the details will only send you looking for Wellbutrin. You're a Solutions Person, you want the memo that suggests ways we can turn this planetary tipping point into a transformational opportunity. And in Part II, "The Response", Brown delivers.

Control population, educate the poor. Everyone sane says this. But Brown knows better ways to help that along than the usual entreaties. Like: Mexico, where "a well-written soap opera can have a profound short-term effect on population growth." Consider: The day after a soap-opera character visited a literacy office on TV, 250,000 followed his example --- in one day --- in Mexico City. Across the country that season, 600,000 more Mexicans enrolled in literacy courses.

Move down the food chain. Michael Pollan can show you how.

Acknowledge that the suburbs are museums of the recent past; re-engineer cities to make them more people-friendly. That means parks, bike lanes, better and more buses. "On my bike, I estimate I get easily 7 miles per potato," Brown writes. Not a bad line from a thinker who heads the Earth Policy Institute. Not bad ideas, given that "by 2020 close to 55 percent of us will be living in cities."

Use less energy. Prime energy wasters: the gold and bottled water industries. You know about bottled water, of course; you use home filters and carry SIGG bottles. Still, it is bracing to recall that American bottled water companies burn about 50 million barrels of oil --- a year.

Switch to renewable energy. Here Brown hits his stride, and his list of countries using natural sources of power will brighten your day.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
Lester Brown gives a solid platform for understanding the major economic and environmental crises we're facing today. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Carlos
4.0 out of 5 stars enlightening
Got so depressed reading the first part of the book about how serious the problems are. Felt a bit better reading the solutions. Read more
Published 4 months ago by John Michelotti
5.0 out of 5 stars Then and now the best and only roadmap away from from Hell and High...
This is the book, in its substance, and in its form, that is the one and only roadmap empowering citizens to take up unviolent arms, put their bodies in the way of environmental... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Loving
5.0 out of 5 stars Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)
Brown's contemporary plan for saving human civilization is a "MUST READ" on the primary reading source for my doctoral International Communications course. Read more
Published on October 22, 2009 by craigjan
5.0 out of 5 stars Brown Has It Right
Curiously, not many people I speak with have heard of Plan B, Plan B 2.0, nor Plan B 3.0. This is a shame, as this book, following in the footsteps of Brown's previous works, is... Read more
Published on September 12, 2009 by B. McDonnell
5.0 out of 5 stars Good info, lackluster read
I had to read this for my generic humanities class. Of the five books I read that semester, this one is by far my least favorite (I didn't even finish it, it was quite boring). Read more
Published on August 10, 2009 by A. Sutton
3.0 out of 5 stars Good for a biginner - but.....
I found this informative in a general way, but if you're looking for specific tasks to be accomplished to reach goals, you won't find it here. Read more
Published on May 5, 2009 by J. Audette
3.0 out of 5 stars Very good at outlining threats, way too lean on solutions
Lester R. Brown does a very good job of outlining the threats facing all of us today. If you are not up to speed on the fact that most irrigation water for the food we eat comes... Read more
Published on March 22, 2009 by Harvest McCampbell
5.0 out of 5 stars Plan B 4.0 — Mobilizing
The short final Part of Plan B — "The Great Mobilization" — is the key to success. Brown improves it from 1.0 to 2.0 to 3.0, and Plan B 4.0 will be even better. Read more
Published on January 24, 2009 by Steven Stoft
5.0 out of 5 stars Please do not buy this book, when it is available free online
This book is available at the earth policy institute free of charge for downloading online.
Published on December 17, 2008 by Sharon Faulkner
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