FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XIV Chapter 12: Feeding the Ten Billion (Cont.) 12.5 Old and new crops We are an exploratory, inventive species, fascinated by the new, dispensing with the old. So ‘new’ crops attract optimistic headlines while old ones are often blamed for …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART XI Chapter 11: The Weight of Numbers One of the greatest changes in human history has been the unprecedented and rapid increase in population over the last 250 years. The total number of people …
STOLEN HARVEST THE HIJACKING OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS 2000 PART 1II Chapter 2: Soy Imperialism and the Destruction of Local Food Cultures Chapter 3: The Stolen Harvest under the Sea Chapter 4: Mad Cows and Sacred Cows Chapter 5: The Stolen Harvest of Seed For more than 10,000 …
EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS 2009 PART VII Chapter 4: Influence/Speechlessness (Cont.) The life and death of a bird The second farm I saw with C was set up in a series of twenty sheds, each 45 feet wide by 490 feet long, each holding in the neighborhood of 33,000 birds. …
ETHICS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA RIVERHEAD BOOKS 1999 PART III Chapter 3: Dependent Origination and the Nature of Reality At a public talk I gave in Japan I was reminded that the way in which things and events unfold does not always coincide with our expectations. This fact …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XIII Chapter 12: Feeding the Ten Billion 12.1 Introduction: routes to greater food production The world must develop the capacity to feed the ten billion within the next 40-50 years, predominantly within Asia and Africa. There are two quite separate …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART X Chapter 10: Disease and Death (Cont) The diseases of industrialization and urbanization From the late 18th century there was a wave of rapid population growth, industrialization and urbanization in western Europe and …
STOLEN HARVEST THE HIJACKING OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS 2000 PART 1I Chapter 1: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Cont.) Creating hunger with monocultures Global chemical corporations, recently reshaped into “life sciences” corporations, declare that without them and their patented products, the world cannot be fed. Industrial agriculture …
EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS 2009 PART VI Chapter 4: Influence/Speechlessness On average, Americans eat the equivalent of 21,000 entire animals in a lifetime. Lam Hoi-ka Johan Hultin, a six-foot-tall Swede arrived in Brevig on August 19, 1997, and got right to digging. Beneath the feet of solid ice were …
ETHICS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA RIVERHEAD BOOKS 1999 PART II Chapter 2: No Magic, No Mystery In calling for a spiritual revolution, am I advocating a religious solution to our problems after all? No. as someone nearing 70 years of age at the time of writing, I have …
