Lester Brown's New Book on the Global Food Crisis

Just in time for the food crisis that now grips the world, Lester Brown’s has a new book:  World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, that discusses in detail the various factors leading to our current predicament.  Brown, who heads up the Earth Policy Institute, warns that a looming food crisis—driven by climate change, population growth, rising meat consumption, water shortages and other factors– could boost global hunger and, ultimately, prove the undoing of human civilization.   He sets forth a detailed program for averting global catastrophe, including reforestation, water conservation, reducing our consumption of fossil fuels through higher taxes, keeping girls in school longer, and providing family planning and reproductive health services to the women who want them.

 http://www.earth-policy.org/books/wote