Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity

Description

Author: Brown, Lester R.

Publisher: W.W. Norton (New York)

Pub Date: 2012

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Appears unused.

Notes: Okay, think about this: At dinner tonight there will be 300,000 more people to feed than there were yesterday ( https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ ).  There are all kinds of issues here–population growth, land scarcity, food security, water shortages, climate change–sorry, didn’t mean to be a downer, but…read this and you’ll start caring a lot more about where your next Big Mac is coming from, and why it costs so much.  A cutline on the book’s rear cover says “Food is the new oil.  Land is new gold.”  Ouch.