Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble

peakoil.com -> earth-policy.org -> earth-policy.org :

Just came across this online book by Lester Brown - "Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble". It is an updated edition which explains the "2.0" part of the title. It's a good read, and free for online reading and download - you could also purchase a paperback or hardback version if you like.

I'd suppose the doomers will have an issue with this, but some of the points being made are : 1. we have big problems - peak oil, water shortages, climate change, biodiversity loss (ok so what else is new?) 2. being centers of commerce, capital, technology and such, cities will continue to exist 3. cities will be re-designed, and technology will help.

Yup, I think the doomers will have quite an issue with this. But then they have an issue with everything except a global collapse of civilization, a dieoff of 5 billion people, and a return to bare subsistence farming and perhaps living in caves, wiping out a hundred if not a thousand years of progress.

Well, perhaps I will take a read and see what he's got to say. I'm still a moderate, by the way. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither did it fall in a day. It continues to exist today, too, and is still popular with the tourists - personally, I found the Colosseum to be of interest. People come and go. So do empires and civilizations.

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