Plan B 4.0 Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Plan B 4.0 Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Book Review
Lester Brown is not only an environmental activist and founder/president of the non-profit environmental think tank known as the Earth Policy Institute, but he is also an accomplished author. In his book, Plan B 4.0 (his latest of three priors and most updated rendition of Plan B), Brown pushes his audience to get on board with his plans to restructure the global economy by stabilizing climate and population, eradicating poverty, reversing the current path of environmental destruction and restoring the natural support systems of our beautiful planet. To accomplish all of these interdependent goals may seem to be an unattainable task but the author does a wonderful job of laying out reasonable paths to success in all regards. One of the many great things about Brown’s plan is that it is congruent with our current technological capabilities and with an international effort equivalent to that of the wartime mobilization known as the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Europe and Japan after WWII, the initiative could in fact stop what is inevitably going to be severe economic decline and quite possibly a collapse. Brown is quoted as saying, “we used to just talk about saving the planet, but it is civilization itself that is now at risk” and “like earlier civilizations that got into environmental trouble, we have to make a choice. We can stay with business as usual and watch our economy decline and our civilization unravel, or we can adopt Plan B and be the generation that mobilizes to save civilization. Our generation will make the decision, but it will affect life on Earth for all generations to come.” (Brown interview 2009)
“Don’t be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.” –Paul Hawken
Stabilizing Climate
Plan B’s main goal in the stabilization of the climate is to cut the global net carbon emissions
Book Review
Lester Brown is not only an environmental activist and founder/president of the non-profit environmental think tank known as the Earth Policy Institute, but he is also an accomplished author. In his book, Plan B 4.0 (his latest of three priors and most updated rendition of Plan B), Brown pushes his audience to get on board with his plans to restructure the global economy by stabilizing climate and population, eradicating poverty, reversing the current path of environmental destruction and restoring the natural support systems of our beautiful planet. To accomplish all of these interdependent goals may seem to be an unattainable task but the author does a wonderful job of laying out reasonable paths to success in all regards. One of the many great things about Brown’s plan is that it is congruent with our current technological capabilities and with an international effort equivalent to that of the wartime mobilization known as the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Europe and Japan after WWII, the initiative could in fact stop what is inevitably going to be severe economic decline and quite possibly a collapse. Brown is quoted as saying, “we used to just talk about saving the planet, but it is civilization itself that is now at risk” and “like earlier civilizations that got into environmental trouble, we have to make a choice. We can stay with business as usual and watch our economy decline and our civilization unravel, or we can adopt Plan B and be the generation that mobilizes to save civilization. Our generation will make the decision, but it will affect life on Earth for all generations to come.” (Brown interview 2009)
“Don’t be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.” –Paul Hawken
Stabilizing Climate
Plan B’s main goal in the stabilization of the climate is to cut the global net carbon emissions