EPIBuilding a Sustainable Future
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Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
Lester R. Brown

Table of Contents

Preface (pdf)

Acknowledgements (pdf)

1. A Planet Under Stress (pdf)
    The Case for Plan B  

PART I. A CIVILIZATION IN TROUBLE

2. Emerging Water Shortages (pdf)
   A Food Bubble Economy

3. Eroding Soils & Shrinking Grainland (pdf)
    Spreading Land Hunger

4. Rising Temperatures and Rising Seas (pdf)
    Subsidizing Climate Change

5. Our Socially Divided World (pdf)
   The High Cost of Illiteracy

6. Plan A: Business as Usual (pdf)
    Plan A: Overwhelmed by Problems

 

  

 

PART II. THE RESPONSE – PLAN B

7. Raising Water Productivity (pdf)
    

8. Raising Land Productivity (pdf)
    Restoring the Earth

9. Cutting Carbon Emissions in Half (pdf)
    Cutting Carbon Emissions

10. Responding to the Social Challenge (pdf)
     Breaking Out

PART III: THE ONLY OPTION

11. Plan B: Rising to the Challenge (pdf)
    Endnotes & About the Author (pdf)