Author: Lester R. Brown Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

In this urgent time， World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.

We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues Lester R. Brown skillfully distills in World on the Edge. Bringing decades of research and analysis into play， he provides the responses needed to reclaim our future.

值此危機(jī)時(shí)刻，《崩潰邊緣的世界》交代了關(guān)鍵的環(huán)境問(wèn)題和當(dāng)即解決這些問(wèn)題的方法。

我們處于政治與自然臨界點(diǎn)之間的競(jìng)賽中。我們能否迅速關(guān)閉火煤發(fā)電廠，拯救格林蘭島的冰蓋，避免海平面上升帶來(lái)的巨大災(zāi)難？我們能否盡快提高水分生產(chǎn)率，阻止含水層枯竭，避免水源食物短缺？我們能否同時(shí)應(yīng)對(duì)用水用油高峰期？針對(duì)這些問(wèn)題，Lester R. Brown在書(shū)中都給出了巧妙的解答。他利用數(shù)十年的研究和分析成果，給了我們改造未來(lái)所需的答案。