A Plan for Preserving Civilization

In Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, award-winning environmentalist and prolific author Lester R. Brown (founder of the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute) confirms Osborn’s forebodings and offers an attractive 21st-century alternative to the unacceptable business-as-usual path we have been following with regard to the environment (Plan A), which is leading us toward “economic decline and collapse.” This volume is a revised, updated and expanded edition of Brown’s 2003 book Plan B. Brown argues that we need to build a new economy. The purposes of this revised edition, he says, are to offer a more detailed vision of what that economy would look like, to include “new evidence that the western economic model will not work for China,” to address issues raised by decreases in the supply of oil, to add an “earth restoration budget” and to describe recent technological advances that might help reverse negative environmental trends. The supporting evidence he presents is impressive.
American Scientist