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The Earth Policy Institute
“Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse," said Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute. At a time of globalization and intense competition to produce more at ever lower prices, the contemporary economic model is doomed, he said. "Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas and increasingly destructive storms," Brown said. With the onset of climate change, Brown said that "we may be approaching the point of no return." To avert disaster, the world must embrace renewable energy, move to eradicate poverty, stabilize population and restore natural systems, according to Brown's prescription. (Agence France-Presse Jan 06, 2006) The Earth Policy Institute, based in Washington DC, USA is dedicated to providing a vision of an environmentally sustainable economy—an eco-economy—as well as a roadmap of how to get from here to there.
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