What If?

What if we already had all the tools and technologies to not only mitigate the most dangerous effects of climate change but to begin to reverse the trend?

What if instead of impending scenarios of food shortages in developed countries and starvation in the developing ones, we could feasibly achieve an acceptable worldwide balance between food and people?

What if we could drastically reduce the levels of heart disease, cancer and obesity in the West and effectively control infectious diseases in developing countries at the same time as substantially reducing child mortality?

And what if we could do all this by 2020?

Lester R. Brown - President of the Earth Policy Institute - believes that not only can we do all this but much, much more and we do it by 2020 if we begin now.

In his book, Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (available in hard copy or as a free PDF download), Lester outlines his road map for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy by investing in energy and water efficiency, using existing harvests more productively at the same time as stabilizing population and ensuring basic health care for people in low-income countries. According to Lester, none of these initiatives depends on new technologies. We know what needs to be done and all that is we need now is leadership.

But what if, its not just leadership we need but a groundswell of opinion? What if its not just up to 'them up there' but us down here? What if its about me, you and Joe Bloggs over the road standing up, taking action and being heard?

What if we can just start tomorrow? Or today?

Read Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization and What You Can Do and lets get on with it!