"Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization"
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English - November 18, 2009 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCourses Education News international studies area studies international politics foreign policy world affairs south asia latin america middle east east asia east europe Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A talk by author and Earth Policy Institute founder Lester Brown. As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined even a year ago. For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, we have begun investing in energy sources that can last forever. Plan B 4.0 explores both the nature of this transition to a new energy economy and how it will affect our daily lives. Cosponsored by the Program on the Global Environment. From the World Beyond the Headlines lecture series.