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PLAN B 3.0 - MOBILIZING TO SAVE CIVILIZATION 
Montague, T 
2008 
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As [Lester Brown] says, No one can argue today that we do not have the resources to eradicate poverty, stabilize population, and protect the earth's natural resource base. We can get rid of hunger, illiteracy, disease, and poverty, and we can restore the earth's soils, forests, and fisheries. Brown shows us how we can shift resources from wasteful military spending to his Plan B economy that creates justice and sustainable prosperity for all the earth's people, a World that will allow us to think of ourselves as civilized. In short, we're cooking the planet, melting the polar ice caps, sucking dry our fresh water supplies, chopping down our forests, over fishing our seas and polluting every corner of the earth with industrial and human waste. This isn't news to Rachel's readers, but if you hanker for a current global analysis of just how threadbare the earth's life support systems have become, Brown provides it. Many of the book's informative tables and the entire text of the book are available for FREE download at the Earth Policy Institute website. The good news is that eradicating poverty and restoring basic ecological health to the planet (from humanity's perspective) is doable. It won't be easy, it will require massive mobilization at all levels of society and government. As Brown says, There are many things we do not know about the future. But one thing we do know is that business as usual will not continue for much longer. Massive change is inevitable. Will the change come because we move quickly to restructure the economy or because we fail to act and civilization begins to unravel? 
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