Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security
Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising
Temperatures
Lester R. Brown, 272 pages,
hardcover $27.95, paperback $15.95: W.W. Norton, 2005.
Lester Brown, the environmental world’s leading prophet of
doom, brings us his latest nonfiction disaster thriller. As world
populations boom, farmers reach deeper and deeper underground for
water; climate change is creating its own little form of hell on
earth; and China threatens to wreak economic and political havoc as
it turns to the world grain market to feed its billions. The hero
that saves the day? Read the book to find out.
Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures
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