Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not.

- Lester R. Brown

The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy was produced by burning so…

- Lester R. Brown

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.

- Lester R. Brown

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

- Lester R. Brown

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

- Lester R. Brown

We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's people are sat…

- Lester R. Brown

Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environment…

- Lester R. Brown

It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to cities and ind…

- Lester R. Brown

Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappear…

- Lester R. Brown