Lester R. Brown Quotes About Growth

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  • Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

  • No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

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

  • In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional level. For the first time in history, grain production is dropping in a geographic region with nothing in sight to arrest the decline. Each day now brings 10,000 more people to feed and less irrigation water with which to feed them.

    "This will be the Arab world's next battle" by Lester R. Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.
  • Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble-one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.

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