Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393327250)

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.

Author: Lester R. Brown
ISBN-10: 0393327256
ISBN-13: 9780393327250
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2005
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.52w x 0.65d

Review Citation(s):
Science Books & Films 07/01/2005 pg. 148
Ingram Advance 01/01/2005 pg. 62
Science Books & Films Best Bks 01/01/2006 pg. 3