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Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing To Save Civilization (2009)

by Lester Russell Brown(Favorite Author)

3.96 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0393071030 (ISBN13: 9780393071030)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: A book which shakes you up to the reality of the climate change crisis and unlike other doomsday writings, provides you with an optimistic blueprint to save the earth. I would have loved it even more if he had added notes on how challenging each step of the blueprint would be. This book was written a couple of years ago and already current events have scraped off some of the optimism. But nevertheless, it still is a very important book for anyone who is concerned about the environment.
review 2: Maybe its because I've been working in a part of the environmental movement for the past 6 months, but nothing in this book was really new or groundbreaking to me. So it kind of read as an overly broad and simplistic manifesto. And I guess I appreciate the tone of "we ... morecan do it!", and to be fair it was written before the current crop of GOP crazies swept in, but politically it just aint gonna happen that we go to all renewable energy by 2020. I think we do have the technology, money, and knowhow, but there's no will so there's no way.I also found it troubling how much he viewed extra taxes on cars and driving in cities as a solution. That's just going to mean less poor people have cars and drive into cities. Which I guess is the majority of the population nowadays, so it would get a lot of cars off the road, but it's a pretty classist solution. less

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