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As I mentioned, in my previous blog posts, I’m sharing the latest release from the Energy Policy Institute.

It’s part of Lester Brown’s latest book, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse.

Here’s the final part of this release.

Enjoy,

-Dan

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Part 3 of 3

Stabilizing climate will mean rapidly cutting carbon emissions by dramatically scaling up renewable energy, harnessing energy efficiency, restructuring transportation systems, curbing deforestation, and planting trees. That the fastest growth in the global energy industry over the last decade is in solar and wind is an early sign of hope.

Politicians talk about cutting carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050, but more ambitious cuts are likely needed to prevent climate catastrophe. Together the climate stabilization measures described in World on the Edge would drop net carbon emissions 80 percent by 2020.

Additional figures and tables are posted by chapter and by topic, along with full downloads of the text of
World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse,
on the Earth Policy Institute website, www.earth-policy.org.

As I mentioned, in my previous blog post, I’m sharing the latest release from the Energy Policy Institute.

It’s part of Lester Brown’s latest book, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse.

Enjoy,

-Dan

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Part 2 of 3

Governments that are unable to ensure adequate and affordable food risk political instability and social unrest. If they cannot provide basic security, they may descend into state failure. Many of the world’s failing states are hampered by high population growth rates and a deteriorating resource base, and depend heavily on international food aid.

A NEW DIRECTION:

Time is running short, but we can pull back from the edge. While security is a major concern for the world’s governments, we have inherited a definition of security from the last century, one dominated by two world wars and the Cold War. Rather than armed aggression, today we are at risk from the fallout of climate change, population growth, water shortages, poverty, rising food prices, and failing states. Military spending worldwide exceeds $1.5 trillion annually; yet traditional defense outlays do little to address these true threats to our future. Diverting just 12 percent of global military spending can meet the goals of eradicating poverty, ensuring basic health care, stabilizing population, and restoring the earth’s natural systems.

More data is available in Lester’s book [on Amazon].

Continued in my next blog post…