Lester Brown, the world's foremost environmental economist and President of the Earth Policy Institute, will speak in Cary Hall, Lexington on Sunday, February 24. He is the author of "Plan B, 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization" and will be presenting his bold new plan to stop global warming and achieve world sustainability.
Lexington's E.O. Wilson says of Brown: "Lester Brown is one of the pioneers and heroes of global environmentalism. If the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize had been extended to a third recipient, the logical candidate would have been Lester Brown." Brown has been called "one of the world's most influential thinkers" by the Washington Post and is the recipient of scores of awards and honorary degrees. He is the founder of Worldwatch Institute, and the winner of the United National Environmental Prize and the genius award from the MacArthur Foundation.
In his new book, "Plan B, 3.0, Mobilizing to Save Civilization" he outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The world faces many environmental trends of disruption and decline, including rising temperatures and spreading water shortage. In addition to these looming threats, we face the peaking of oil, annual population growth of 70 million, a widening global economic divide, and a growing list of failing states. The scale and complexity of issues facing our fast-forward world have no precedent.
With Plan A, business as usual, we have neglected these issues overly long. In /Plan B 3.0/, Lester R. Brown warns that the only effective response now is a World War II-type mobilization like that in the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Kevin Knobloch, President of the Union of Concerned Scientists, will present opening remarks at 7:30 PM. Copies of Brown's book will be available for sale and signing that evening. Admission is Free and the talk is open to all. Sponsored by Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition. For more information, see www.lexgwac.org
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