Lester Brown: The Planet's Scarcest Resource Is Time

In this eleventh video in the series "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate" from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, analyst, author and founder of the Earth Policy Institute Lester Brown discusses how unprepared the world really is for the growing effects of climate change. "Economists doing supply and demand projections are largely unaware" of the scale of the resource crises facing the world, Brown says, and "food is going to be the weak link for our civilization as it was for so many earlier civilizations."
To learn more about "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate," and to see the other videos in the series, visit www.TheNation.com.

[@healthyfoodstorage]

So returning back to growing our own foods will build communities and togetherness. Seperation is what has brought on much of the disaster occuring to mother nature. Go to your local library, check out books on gardening methods (like square food gardening), and get your seeds right away. Its up to us for strength and abilitity to rebuild after disaster. Working on knowledge now is Key!

[@amaramichaels2064]

In the 1990's in a public lecture by Caroline Myss, she suggested that when we developed atomic technology, that it sent some kind of signal to the cosmos, and accelerated time. At that time, I considered this idea to be unlikely, however, I now suspect she was correct, and the reason was that we chose to split the atom, rather than choosing to develop fission technology.

[@plankton8978]

I agree that we face a Time Crunch-it is the acceleration and globalization of change brought on in large part by technology like computers which initially are wonders- they trigger more output and communication --but then they accelerate change, consumption and globalization etc. The result is decisions and resulting impacts are unmanageable and chaotic. Change is now global and rapid in many cases beyond our ability to comphrehend them and react. So I believe the best option is to reject globalization personally, and operate instead as much as possible within a sustainable local economy.

[@wehiird]

seven years later...at least we're still here...

[@CulpritTheAccused]

This current system is designed to be better than all of the cilvilizations in the past but it to has weaknesses.

[@danfromabove]

@keehwan2008 Economists thought they were basing society on rational science and rulers have long justified their position as reflections of natural law. These things are not enough, nor are they truely objective. I am totally underwhelmed by TVP's centralised, modernist vision; we need radical individualism (not the consumerist, egomaniac kind) built around our local environments - reintegrating the ancient tribal model as far as possible. One size fits all just won't cut it any more.

[@CarlitosMayo]

1 kilo of meat needs 10 kilos of wheat. Go figure ...
Its not a matter of increasing the production of food it a matter of what we eat and how we eat.

[@MrSvenovitch]

How many times you hear these people saying the word 'interesting' when they ought to be saying 'tragic'

[@Knossos22]

@petrocalypsenow
Think we will make it to the end of this century?

[@unloads]

@blackman666ful There is no design. Mere luck and a little resource called oil. Get ready for some crazy stuff in our times.

[@CarlitosMayo]

@fakeham
I don't want to live in a commy world controlled by computers!

[@CarlitosMayo]

@SORRYYOUREWRONGGUY
Sorry you're wrong.

[@pelkaim]

7 300 000 000 people 1 000 000 000 every decade. ........that's it.

[@juguez1]

AS many as we are but that is what we are and will be staying here for a while. It will take a generation or two (20 to 40 years) though in the meantime they (YOURSELF and THEM and myself) are here. It doesn´t help AT ALL that you pinpoint that the world is overpopulated, WE ALL KNOW THAT!!!! Ok? Even China gave up its one child policy. So it´s up to us. The issue here is to "walking the walk" and not "talking the talk", do we get it RIGHT?? Cheers! :-)

[@renebarendse2864]

If this man would take his own dire warnings seriously he would be speaking to us from a farm somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa - which is the place to be he says here - and not from Washington DC where he seems to live.

[@mikeharrington5593]

rene barendse And why shouldn't this honourable man spend his salad years near to his family? He chooses to deliver his message in the most important nation of the world. (Correction: Trump/GOP has now demoted the USA from being the most important to the status of a self-obsessed outcast in the global environment now apparently hooked on junk science).