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Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (Updated and Expanded Edition) Paperback – January 23, 2006

by Lester R. Brown (Author)
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Plan B 40 - Mobilizing to Save Civilization - Substantially Revised (REV 09) by Brown, Lester R [Paperback (2009)]
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In this new edition, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first civilization.

The world faces numerous environmental trends of disruption and decline such as rising temperatures, falling water tables, shrinking forests, melting glaciers, collapsing fisheries, and rising sea levels. In Plan B, Lester R. Brown notes that in ignoring nature's deadlines for dealing with these environmental issues we risk the disruption of economic progress.

In addition to these environmental trends, the world faces the peaking of oil, the addition of 70 million people per year, a widening global economic divide, and the spread of international terrorism. The global scale and growing complexity of issues facing our fast-forward world have no precedent.
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  1. Print length
    365 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    W. W. Norton
  4. Publication date
    January 23, 2006
  5. Dimensions
    6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0393328317
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0393328318
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  • L. Craig
    5.0 out of 5 stars Change Happens
    Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2006
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    Our world is changing quickly. The media and our government are so focused on what is happening today that we are getting very little information about what is going to happen next. Thank goodness we have Lester Brown to fill us in on the near future and unfortunately, it is not a pretty picture. Over- population, the oil peak, world hunger, global warming, growing poverty and other calamities are knocking on our door. We need to make broad, deep, and serious changes in the way we live and work. First we need a dialogue about the problems and the solutions, and this book is a great primer on all of this and more. I highly recommend it and while your at it, read The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler, another book about the same issues but with a very different take on the subject.
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  • Rev. Andrew L. Szebenyi
    5.0 out of 5 stars Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
    Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2007
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    We do have prophets for our time. Lester Brown is one of the most important among them. In his well founded search for truth and solutions for our demographic, ecological and economic problems of global dimensions, he powerfully opposes the four faces of destructive stupidity of our times: ignorance, refusal to discuss matters, denial, and faithful dysfunctionality. I made this book the present day Bible that must be read and discussed in my course on Bioethics: Perspectives on Human Life, at Le Moyne College, Syracuse NY.

    Dr. Andrew Szebenyi S.J.
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  • Amber
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Life Changing Read
    Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2012
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    I was made to read this for comprehensive exams in my graduate program. As a biologist, I understood the science of the crisis that we are in but not the political side. This book is very educational and inspiring. A book that everyone should read.
    It is worth mentioning that this book is available for free reading online at [...]
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  • amazon troll
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read
    Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2012
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    great book. need it for class and now i don't but i still have it. i guess your going to buy it anyways since you are this page. my opinion will not swayed your thoughts on buying this book because its a book and nobody just umpulsively buy books they have no intention of reading.
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  • Xander Holden
    3.0 out of 5 stars Plan A
    Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2009
    This is an inspiring call to action, no doubt. But I think for someone toating environmentalism, Plan A should have been to stop putting out Plan B 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, etc. Yes, the book is offered online. But, then why do new versions of the book need to be offered again and again in paperback. There are of course the new buyers, but given that this is a widely read book in colleges, most professors would be forced to buy the book again. Wouldn't it have been better to put out just maybe a fifty page update in paperback and save the book for used sales and the internet. Oh, wait. Brown needs money - that's his Plan A. P.S. For anyone who thinks I'm kidding, Plan B 4.0 is coming out in October of this year. Check it out - also in paperback.
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  • Suraj Kumar
    4.0 out of 5 stars Crisis is clear but expected some solutions
    Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2008
    I bought this book after much reading about the overall resource strain our planet has been facing though wanted to read all about it in one place. This book is an excellent resource for this purpose. I treasure this book because every now and then I can keep pulling out some impressive statistics and data and even helps me choose a direction to look for when thinking about my own family's future.

    However, I take away one star because the 'solutions' offered are not indepth. A majority of the book only focuses on talking about issues. The last chapter with the solutions leaves something desired.
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  • Joel Huberman
    5.0 out of 5 stars The solutions to the world's problems are easier than one might imagine!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2006
    The first half of this book summarizes the numerous problems that our world is facing; the second half provides feasible solutions to those problems. Even though I was well aware of our planet's problems (which include global warming, loss of forest and farmland, loss of fresh water, ongoing and threatened epidemic diseases, exhaustion of our fossil fuel resources, increasing pollution, etc.), I found Brown's fact-filled cataloguing of these problems to be scarier and more alarming than any description I had previously encountered. The gut-wrenching impact of Brown's description of our planet's ills stems partly from the thoroughness with which he backs up his claims and partly from the fact that, unlike most analysts, he forces us to consider ALL of our global problems simultaneously. One is left with the impression--after reading the first half of the book--that it will take super-human efforts to prevent ecological, economic, political and social catastrophe within this century. But then, in the second half of the book, Brown describes strategies by which all of these problems can be solved. Like his description of the earth's problems, Brown's descriptions of ways to solve those problems are well-researched and convincing. In most cases, aspects of his recommended strategies have already been tried in one country or another, in one place or another, and have been shown to work. The strategies do not require tremendous expenditure (an annual outlay of 1/6 of the world's military budget will be sufficient), nor do they require departures from standard market capitalism. One strategy, of which economists would approve (I believe) involves shifting taxes from income to ecologically destructive activities (thus reflecting the true cost of such activities). Such tax-shifting would not increase the average person's tax burden, but it would create tremendous incentives to reduce environmental destruction. In fact, the strategies outlined by Brown are so feasible (so easy to carry out) and promise to accomplish so much that I found the second half of the book to be exhilarating. In my view, it should be required reading for every inhabitant of our planet. Perhaps the word "required" is too strong. No threat of punishment will be needed to make any of us who start reading this book continue to the end. Brown's writing is forceful and clear, the book is fun to read, and one feels much better after reading it. There _is_ hope for this planet!
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