Should We Be Mobilizing To Save Civilization?
Lester Brown is the President of the EarthPolicy Institute. I read an excerpt from his latest book, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, and had to order it. I am not sure this book is something the masses will take to as the excerpt is just full of facts, figures, and pretty intense reasoning and explanation. But this guy really seems to get it. In addition to the big topics of the day like climate change, energy use, and transportation, he discusses sustainable building practices, a new materials economy, and how he believes the world will be changing from a globalized fossil fuel economy to a localized renewable energy economy.
I will write more after I read the whole book. Don’t wait on the edge of your seat, though, as my reading habits tend to slow down the completion of any single book. I don’t know why, but I have never been able to read one book at a time like a normal person. I always have a few going at once, which slows things down. Right now I am reading:
"Life in the Balance", by Linda Prout
"Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words", by Bill Bryson
"The Book of General Ignorance", by John Llyod & John Mitchinson, and
"Deep Survival", by Laurence Gonzales
Add to the list some watching of The History Channel, etc., a couple of magazines, the daily newspaper and some blogs and you can see I don’t approach my addiction to information gathering in the most logical manner. Oh well!
Speaking of the History Channel…. There is a show on Monday at 9:00 pm called something like The Earth Without Man. Given my opinion that Earth will survive after we are gone, I wait eagerly to see if the show is any good.
Have a great weekend everyone! It is beautiful cold, clear, weather here right now, with no snow or rain for the past several days. I plan to spend a bunch of time outdoors. Tomorrow a 12 mile hike up over the Collins Mountain Trail which should be clear of snow except for possibly a couple miles at the highest elevations. Maybe I’ll get some pictures to post next week.
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