Author: Lester R. Brown Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.
We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues Lester R. Brown skillfully distills in World on the Edge. Bringing decades of research and analysis into play, he provides the responses needed to reclaim our future.
值此危機時刻,《崩潰邊緣的世界》交代了關鍵的環境問題和當即解決這些問題的方法。
我們處于政治與自然臨界點之間的競賽中。我們能否迅速關閉火煤發電廠,拯救格林蘭島的冰蓋,避免海平面上升帶來的巨大災難?我們能否盡快提高水分生產率,阻止含水層枯竭,避免水源食物短缺?我們能否同時應對用水用油高峰期?針對這些問題,Lester R. Brown在書中都給出了巧妙的解答。他利用數十年的研究和分析成果,給了我們改造未來所需的答案。