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An award-winning environmental journalist presents a new era of farmers and scientists on the frontlines of another green revolution. If the demographer Robert Malthus (1766 - 1834) famously specified the brutal marriage between food and populace, he never imagined the success of modern methodical agriculture. Within the mid-20th hundred years, an unprecedented agricultural advancement known as the Green Revolution brought hybrid seed products, chemical substance fertilizers, and improved irrigation that drove the best population boom in history - but remaining ecological devastation in its wake. In The End of Lots, award-winning environmental journalist Joel K. Bourne Jr. sets our contest to feed the entire world in dramatic perspective. Having a skyrocketing world populace and tightening global grain materials spurring riots and revolutions, mankind must produce the maximum amount of food in the next four ages as it includes since the start of civilization to avoid a Malthusian catastrophe. Yet local climate change could provide half our farmland unproductive by century's end. Writing with an agronomist's eye for practical alternatives and a journalist's eager sense of personality, fine detail, and the natural world, Bourne can take readers from his family plantation to international agricultural hotspots to bring in the new era of farmers and scientists engaged in the best challenge mankind has ever encountered. He discovers young, commercial cowboys trying to regenerate Ukraine as Europe's breadbasket, a Canadian aquaculturist channeling early Chinese practices, the visionary behind the world's greatest organic sugar-cane plantation, and many other extraordinary individuals attempting to increase food materials - quickly and sustainably - as droughts, floods, and heat waves hammer plants around the world. Part background, part reportage and advocacy, The End of Lots is a breathtaking account into the future of food, and a clarion demand anyone concerned about our planet and its people.
