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An inspirational memoir tracing Lester Brown's life from a small-farm child years to leadership as a worldwide environmental activist. Lester R. Dark brown, whom the Washington Post praised as "one of the world's most important thinkers," built his understanding of global environmental issues from the bottom up. Brown spent his childhood focusing on the family's small farm. His entrepreneurial skills surfaced early on. Even while excelling in institution, he launched with his younger sibling a tomato-growing operation that by 1958 was producing 1.5 million pounds of tomato vegetables. Later, at the U.S. Section of Agriculture, Dark brown emphasized the necessity for systemic thinking. In 1963 he did the first global food source and demand projections to the finish of the century. While on a brief project in India in 1965, he pieced mutually the hints that led him to appear the alarm on an impending famine there. His urgent caution to the U.S. and Indian governments set in place the major food rescue work in history, assisting to save millions of lives. This experience led India to look at new agricultural techniques, which he helped to shape. Brown continued to advise governments internationally also to found the Worldwatch and Earth Plan institutes, two major nonprofit environmental research organizations. Both brilliant and articulate, through his many books he has brought to the fore the interconnections among such issues as overpopulation, environment change, and water shortages and their effect on food security.
