In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new … - Lester R. Brown

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Lester R. Brown

In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage, and countries are scrambling to secure their own parochial interests at the expense of the common good.

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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

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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.

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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.

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