Lester R. Brown: Plan B Budget for Restoring the Earth

The health of an economy cannot be separated from that of its natural support systems. More than half the world

Restoring the earth will take an enormous international effort, one even larger and more demanding than the often-cited Marshall Plan that helped rebuild war-torn Europe and Japan. And such an initiative must be undertaken at wartime speed lest environmental deterioration translate into economic decline, just as it did for earlier civilizations that violated nature