Outgrowing The Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures - Couverture souple

Brown, Lester R

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393327256 ISBN 13 : 9780393327250

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2005

Synopsis

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 feed 70 million more people each year. The risk is that tightening food supplies could drive up food prices, destabilizing governments in low-income grain-importing countries and disrupting global economic progress. Future security, Brown says, now depends on raising water productivity, stabilizing climate by moving beyond fossil fuels, and stabilizing population by filling the family planning gap and educating young people everywhere.

If Osama bin Laden and his colleagues succeed in diverting our attention from the real threats to our future security, they may reach their goals for reasons that even they have not imagined.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lester R. Brown is the founder of the Earth Policy and Worldwatch Institutes. He has been honored with numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the United Nations Environment Prize, and twenty-five honorary degrees. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393327256
• ISBN 13: 9780393327250
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 258
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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