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Outgrowing the earth the food security challenge in the age of falling water tables and rising temperatures

'Lester Brown advances our thinking on the food-security issues that the world will be wrestling with for years to come.' Sustain 'The book should be bought just to demonstrate how good arguments are put together.' Paul Ganderton Praise for Eco-Economy '[A] lucid and wide-ranging examination of how we can save our forests grow rich on power generated from wind and sun halt global warming and heal the ozone layer.' New Scientist Praise for the Author 'Widely respected environmental political thinker Lester Brown ... writes powerfully and accessibly and is eminently readable.' Times Higher Educa.

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  • "Historically, food security was the responsibility of ministries of agriculture but today that has changed: decisions made in ministries of energy may instead have the greatest effect on the food situation. Recent research reporting that a one degree Celsius rise in temperature can reduce grain yields by 10 per cent means that energy policy is now directly affecting crop production. Agriculture is a water-intensive activity and, while public attention has focused on oil depletion, it is aquifer depletion that poses the more serious threat. There are substitutes for oil, but none for water and."
  • "'Lester Brown advances our thinking on the food-security issues that the world will be wrestling with for years to come.' Sustain 'The book should be bought just to demonstrate how good arguments are put together.' Paul Ganderton Praise for Eco-Economy '[A] lucid and wide-ranging examination of how we can save our forests grow rich on power generated from wind and sun halt global warming and heal the ozone layer.' New Scientist Praise for the Author 'Widely respected environmental political thinker Lester Brown ... writes powerfully and accessibly and is eminently readable.' Times Higher Educa."@en
  • "Environmental analyst Lester R. Brown documents the ways In which human demands are outstripping the earth's natural capacities--and how the resulting environmental damage is undermining food production.--From publisher description."@en
  • "Advancing our current thinking on food security issues, this text condsiders influences such as global warming and government policies in order to address critical issues that will face food producers in the years to come."

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  • "Outgrowing the Earth The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures"
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