"The world has quietly entered a new era, one where there is no national security without global security. We need to recognize this and to restructure and refocus our efforts to respond to this new reality." –Lester R. Brown, Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
Janet Larsen Interviewed for NPR
November 17, 2014
EPI's Director of Research Janet Larsen was interviewed for NPR's article "Dust Bowls Aren't Just An 'Interstellar' Thing." Two new dust bowls—regions of formerly productive land now crippled by prolonged drought and dust storms—have been developing in China and northern Africa over the past few decades. Read the full story here.