"World on the Edge is brilliant. Author Lester Brown is one of
humanity's greatest voices for the environment. In this volume,
he presents the reader with a clear prescription for restoring
sanity to our relationship with the biosphere. Highest
recommendation." —Geoffrey Holland, The Hydrogen Age In 1543,
Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus published “On the
Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres,” in which he challenged
the view that the sun revolved around the earth, arguing instead
that the earth revolved around the sun. With his new model of
the solar system, he began a wide-ranging debate among
scientists, theologians, and others. His alternative to the
earlier Ptolemaic model, which had the earth at the center of
the universe, led to a revolution in thinking, to a new
worldview. Today we need a similar shift in our worldview, in
how we think about the relationship between the earth and the
economy. The issue now is not which celestial sphere revolves
around the other but whether the environment is part