State of the World 2001

by Lester R. Brown (Author)

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  2001

  $27.76

  The Worldwatch Institute's research team tackles the great challenge of our rapidly globalizing world: how to use our political systems to manage the difficult and complex relationships between the global economy and the Earth's ecosystems. This book provides concerned citizens and national leaders with an analysis of threatening environmental trends - from the growing pollution of groundwater to the increasing toll of unnatural disasters to the effects of the developing world's staggering 2 trillion dollar debt - and emerging solutions to turn those trends around.

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  1999

  $4.40

  State of the World 1999 presents evidence of the birth of an entirely new economy, an Environmental Revolution that may be as sweeping as the Industrial Revolution that put us on our present unsustainable course. The authors argue that, far from being too costly to consider, the transition to an environmentally sustainable economy represents the greatest investment opportunity in history. In country after country, community after community, people are making the changes needed to shift from today's fossil fuel-based, auto-centric, throwaway economy to a solar/hydrogen-powered, bicycle/rail-centered, reuse/recycle economy--an economy that will satisfy human needs while preserving the Earth's ecosystems.