Book Review: The Earth Policy Reader

Book Review: The Earth Policy Reader

The novel "The Earth Policy Reader" written by Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, and Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts is a book written to perfection and is divided in three parts. This report is an earlier publication, Eco-economy which appears to have laid out the basic plan upon which this current work is built. Throughout this paper I will talk about the three parts that this book is divided in to and they are as follows: The economic cost of ecological deficits, Eco-economy indicators: twelve trends to track and lastly is about the eco- economy updates. By explaining the three parts in which the text is divided, the first part of the text contains three cases described in detail.

The first part is about their food and the inspections on this food. This is an important issue, since the environmental security is one of the most common issues in the international plan and has been for more than twenty years, but what we can see here is a new approach that considered the loss, the elimination of soil and the increasing category of water to help grow the crops above and beyond of those insignificant areas. This approach does not help if the production is the center of animal production. This is not a good method of high quality plant material such as soybeans at the best of the times.

The second part for example starts off with the continuing and growing problems that China is facing with its hastily shifting in economy. The change in this economy is caused by the relationship that China has with many diverse countries around the world and also the increase in exporting and importing their goods and products to other countries in South America for example Brazil which is not the only one. China is definitely passing through a lot of new changes, and these changes are causing a lot of different effects in their economy. Also other countries are having similar changes causing effects in their economies, like for example South Korea and North Korea. This novel also mentions that these three countries are facing problems with their cost of demand of their agricultural products because of the weather making the crop system fall short.

The third part is about global warming. Like the previous the plan is to show how economic benefits can run with environmental quality. In the case of energy, the most common sources and alternatives are solar energy and wind power. Some countries in Europe started to save power and cleaning the air using windmills. Each subtitle related to the twelve trends helps the reader to understand the different variety of ranges and indicators given. The novel starts looking at the increase in population and the instability in the economy. One example that the book gives is about the importance to produce products such as grain, fish and forest products these are main products in our society today. This is important to stabilize the increase in population and it would help to build a better economy by exporting their products to many other countries. The last three trends would be seen as an important activity to increase the use of wind

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