Lester Brown
Lester Brown
Lester Russel Brownis a United States environmental analyst, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C. BBC Radio commentator Peter Day calls him "one of the great pioneer environmentalists."...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth28 March 1934
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Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas and increasingly destructive storms.
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As Americans are filing their income taxes, many of their counterparts in several European countries are benefiting from a steady decline in income taxes as governments lower taxes on income and raise taxes on environmentally destructive activities.
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They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China.
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Humanity's collective demands have exceeded the earth's regenerative capacity by 26 percent,
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There is growing recognition in China that they have to make some changes ... though it has not yet publicly taken the form of saying the western economic model is not going to work for us.
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We're putting the supermarket in competition with the corner filling station for the output of the farm.