Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to … - Lester R. Brown

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Lester R. Brown

Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble-one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.

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Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.

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One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come

Choice, Choices, Generation, Generations, Our Generation, Way

Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases bring crop-withering heat waves, more-destructive storms, more-intense droughts, more forest fires, and, of course, ice melting. We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize.

Fall, Falling, Fire, Ice, Trends, Waves

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

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Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.

Leader, Leaders, Political, See, Support Systems, Systems