Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures
How human demands are outstripping the earth's capacities—and what we need to do about it.\ Ever since 9/11, many have considered al Queda to be the leading threat to global security, but falling water tables in countries that contain more than half the world's people and rising temperatures worldwide pose a far more serious threat. Spreading water shortages and crop-withering heat waves are shrinking grain harvests in more and more countries, making it difficult for the world's farmers to...
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How human demands are outstripping the earth's capacities—and what we need to do about it.
1Pushing beyond the earth's limits32Stopping at seven billion223Moving up the food chain efficiently404Raising the earth's productivity595Protecting cropland806Stabilizing water tables997Stabilizing climate1188Reversing China's harvest decline1339The Brazilian dilemma15610Redefining security177
\ Sustain“Lester Brown advances our thinking on the food-security issues that the world will be wrestling with for years to come.”\ \ \ \ \ E. O. Wilson“[I]t will be an instant classic.”\ \ \ Paul Ganderton“The book should be bought just to demonstrate how good arguments are put together.”\ \ \ \ \ Time Magazines Higher Education Supplement“The book proposes that the challenge of feeding the world is at least as much about energy, water, climate and population. This view is no more than we should expect from Lester Brown, whose forte, eloquently expressed in the course of writing dozens of books over the past four decades, is to emphasize the links that connect all our development sectors, sometimes obviously, sometimes covertly, often crucially.”\ \
