Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity write by Lester R. Brown. This book was released on 2012-09-11. Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With food supplies tightening, countries are competing for the land and waterresources needed to feed their people.
World on the Edge
World on the Edge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World on the Edge write by Lester Brown. This book was released on 2012-06-25. World on the Edge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now. We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues Lester R. Brown skilfully distils in World on the Edge. Bringing decades of research and analysis into play, he provides the responses needed to reclaim our future.
Who Will Feed China?
Who Will Feed China? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Who Will Feed China? write by Lester Brown. This book was released on 2023-08-18. Who Will Feed China? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1995, but with enduring relevance in a time of global population growth and food insecurity, when it was first published, this book attracted much global attention, and criticism from Beijing. It argued that even as water becomes scarcer in a land where 80% of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of agricultural land to industrialization, and as food production stagnates, China still increases its population by the equivalent of a new Beijing each year. This book predicts that in an integrated world economy, China’s rising food prices will become the world’s rising food prices. China’s land scarcity will come everyone’s land scarcity and water scarcity in China will affect the entire world. China’s dependence on massive imports, like the collapse of the world’s fisheries, will be a wake-up call that we are colliding with the earth’s capacity to feed us. Over time, Janet Larsen argued, China’s leaders came to ‘acknowledge how Who Will Feed China? changed their thinking..’ As China’s wealth increases, so do the dietary demands of its population. The increasing middle classes demand more grain-intensive meat and farmed fish. The issue of who will feed China has not gone away.
Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)
Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised) write by Lester Russell Brown. This book was released on 2008. Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides alternative solutions to such global problems as population control, emerging water shortages, eroding soil, and global warming, outlining a detailed survival strategy for the civilization of the future.
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor write by Rob Nixon. This book was released on 2011-06-01. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence" to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism today. Slow violence, because it is so readily ignored by a hard-charging capitalism, exacerbates the vulnerability of ecosystems and of people who are poor, disempowered, and often involuntarily displaced, while fueling social conflicts that arise from desperation as life-sustaining conditions erode. In a book of extraordinary scope, Nixon examines a cluster of writer-activists affiliated with the environmentalism of the poor in the global South. By approaching environmental justice literature from this transnational perspective, he exposes the limitations of the national and local frames that dominate environmental writing. And by skillfully illuminating the strategies these writer-activists deploy to give dramatic visibility to environmental emergencies, Nixon invites his readers to engage with some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
