The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the day you run out. Then all you have is the recharge flow, which comes from precipitation. This is not decades away, this is years away. We're already seeing huge shortages in China, where the Yellow River runs dry for part of each year. The Yellow River is the cradle of Chinese civilization. It first failed to reach the sea in 1972, and since 1985 it's run dry for part of each year. For 1997 it was dry for 226 days.
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
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
Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not. - Lester R. Brown
Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not.
Saving civilization is not a spectator sport. - Lester R. Brown
Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.
Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing. - Lester R. Brown
Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth. - Lester R. Brown
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
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
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…
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
Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environment…
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
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…
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappear… - Lester R. Brown
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappear…
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