The most pressing question today is whether the environment is part of economy or vice versa. Lester R. Brown maintains that it is economy that is part of the environment and to demonstrate its validity a large part of the book 'Eco-Economy' is dedicated to it.The author - founder and chairman of the Worldwatch Institute and chairman of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington DC, an organisation of multi-subject research - points out how the economic model based on fossil fuels, on the use of cars and disposable products cannot work for the whole world and not even, in the long run, for industrialised countries.
Despite this he is optimistic and he explains how it is possible to restructure global economy to make it compatible with the earth's ecosystems, in order for economic progress to continue. In Brown's analysis eco-economy is not a utopian notion: its key elements are already all operational and only need policies to integrate them. Everybody is called to this task: from governments to International organisations, from companies to NGOs, from the media to individual citizens.
May.2002
Published by W.W. Norton
