Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet (Worldwatch Environmental Alert)
By Lester R. Brown.
Description
In an integrated world economy, China’s rising food prices will become the world’s rising food prices. China’s land scarcity will become everyone’s land scarcity. And water scarcity in China will affect the entire world. China’s dependence on massive imports, like the collapse of the world’s fisheries, will be a wake-up call that we are colliding with the earth’s capacity to feed us. It could well lead us to redefine national security away from military preparedness and toward maintaining adequate food supplies. To feed its 1.2 billion people, China...
ISBN(s)
039331409X, 9780393314090
