SEIKA, Kyoto Pref. -- Collapsing fisheries, shrinking farmland and rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are symptoms of severe stress put on the environment by a world whose population is spinning out of control, according to Lester Brown, chairman and founder of the prestigious Worldwatch Institute in Washington.
Speaking here earlier this week at "World Environment Forum 2001" at Keihanna Plaza, Brown took up the issue of a coming paradigm shift in the relation between the world economy and world ecology.
Before a crowd of more than 200 businesspeople, students, scholars and environmentalists, he sounded a note of dire warning, but also emphasized that even with the present technology we can begin solving environmental problems.