Quotes from Lester R. Brown

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

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.

One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.

Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning the years from 1960 to 1995.