Praise for Plan B

“Lester Brown tells us how to build a more just world and save the planet...in a practical, straightforward way. We should all heed his advice.”

—President Bill Clinton

“...a far-reaching thinker.”

—U.S. News & World Report

“The best book on the environment I’ve ever read.”

—Chris Swan, Financial Times

“It’s exciting...a masterpiece!”

—Ted Turner

“[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable...”

—Katherine Salant, Washington Post

“In tackling a host of pressing issues in a single book, Plan B 2.0 makes for an eye-opening read.”

—Times Higher Education Supplement

“A great blueprint for combating climate change.”

—Bryan Walsh, Time

“[Brown] lays out one of the most comprehensive set of solutions you can find in one place.”

—Joseph Romm, Climate Progress

“...a highly readable and authoritative account of the problems we face from global warming to shrinking water resources, fisheries, forests, etc. The picture is very frightening. But the book also provides a way forward.”

—Clare Short, British Member of Parliament

“Lester R. Brown gives concise, but very informative, summaries of what he regards as the key issues facing civilization as a consequence of the stress we put on our environment....a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate.”

—The Ecologist

“Brown is impassioned and convincing when talking about the world’s ills and what he considers the four great goals to restoring civilization’s equilibrium...”

—April Streeter, TreeHugger.com

“In this impressively researched manifesto for change, Brown bluntly sets out the challenges and offers an achievable road map for solving the climate change crisis.”

—The Guardian

“…the best summation of humanity’s converging ecological problems and the best roadmap to solving them, all in one compact package.”

—David Roberts, Grist

“Lester R. Brown… offers an attractive 21st-century alternative to the unacceptable business-as-usual path that we have been following with regard to the environment (Plan A), which is leading us to ‘economic decline and collapse.’”

—Thomas F. Malone, American Scientist

“Brown’s overall action plan is both comprehensive and compelling.”

—Caroline Lucas, Resurgence

“Beautifully written and unimpeachably well-informed.”

—Ross Gelbspan, author of The Heat is On

“The best single volume on saving the earth, period.”

—Geoffrey Holland, author of The Hydrogen Age