Lester Brown is obviously a well respected member of the environmental movement, perhaps his Harvard degree in Public Administration has limited his vision as to the causes and effects of the whole panoply of concerns around failed states, failing economies, and failing climates - except that climates do not fail, they just adapt. Humans will also have to adapt, but we can only do so if the larger causes and effects of our current militarized geopolitical economy are first recognized and then changed.
References
[1] see "The dismal science becomes gloomier" Axis of Logic, 2008 09 16
[2] Brown, Lester. "Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?" Scientific American, May, 2009. pp. 50-57.
[3] Anyone who had already read Jared Diamond's works Guns, Germs, and Steel (Norton, 1999) and Collapse (Viking Penguin, 2005) would not find much new in these arguments.
[4] for presentations on the IMF and the global financial situation see: Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its discontents; Amy Chua World on Fire and Day of Empire; Ha-Joon Chang Bad Samaritans; Kevin Phillips Bad Money; James K. Galbraith The Predator State; and Peter Gibbon et al A Blighted Harvest.
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