Quotes by Lester R. Brown

Lester R. Brown

A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused on the health of the planet and the poor than on material acquisitions and military might. While it is a fundamentally new endeavor, with many uncertainties, it is far less risky than continuing with business as usual.

Environmental

Military

Order

Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases bring crop-withering heat waves, more-destructive storms, more-intense droughts, more forest fires, and, of course, ice melting. We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize.

Fall

Fire

Ice

Another agricultural trend of growing concern is the increased nutrient content of coastal waters resulting from fertilizer runoff in agricultural regions. Augmented by urban sewage discharge in some situations, this results in huge algal blooms, which, as they die and decay, deplete the oxygen content in the water, leading to the death of the fish.

Environmental

Oxygen

Water

Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the worst pollution, such as Beijing, Calcutta, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Tehran, is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

Air

Breathing

Children

Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive algal bloom covering some 16,000 square kilometers. As the blooms die off, this area-roughly the size of New Jersey-is so deprived of oxygen that no fish survive.

Oxygen

Squares

Summer

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

Environmental

Rising Prices

Scarcity

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

Environmental

Growth

Insecurity

Humanity’s greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

Challenges

Environmental

Humanity

If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground

Doe

Principles

Progress

In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day.

Air

Breathing

Cities

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Challenges

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China

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Cities

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Country

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Doors

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Effort

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Failing

Fall

Fire

Foundation

Fuel

Generations

Global Warming

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Gold

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Half

Humanity

Ice

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Inspiring

Issues

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Light

May

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Quotes by Lester R. Brown

Lester R. Brown

Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the worst pollution, such as Beijing, Calcutta, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Tehran, is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

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

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

Humanity’s greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground

In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day.

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