Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures
Lester R. Brown, 272 pages, hardcover $27.95, paperback $15.95: W.W. Norton, 2005.

Lester Brown, the environmental world’s leading prophet of doom, brings us his latest nonfiction disaster thriller. As world populations boom, farmers reach deeper and deeper underground for water; climate change is creating its own little form of hell on earth; and China threatens to wreak economic and political havoc as it turns to the world grain market to feed its billions. The hero that saves the day? Read the book to find out.

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Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an
Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures

by Staff, High Country News
July 25, 2005

<h1>Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an<br /> Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures</h1> <p class="byline">by Staff, High Country News <br />July 25, 2005</p> <p><i>Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security<br /> Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising<br /> Temperatures</i><br /> Lester R. Brown, 272 pages,<br /> hardcover $27.95, paperback $15.95: W.W. Norton, 2005. </p> <p>Lester Brown, the environmental world’s leading prophet of<br /> doom, brings us his latest nonfiction disaster thriller. As world<br /> populations boom, farmers reach deeper and deeper underground for<br /> water; climate change is creating its own little form of hell on<br /> earth; and China threatens to wreak economic and political havoc as<br /> it turns to the world grain market to feed its billions. The hero<br /> that saves the day? Read the book to find out.</p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=189026">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an<br /> Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-302/outgrowing-the-earth-the-food-security-challenge-in-anage-of-falling-water-tables-and-rising-temperatures/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=111425&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-302/outgrowing-the-earth-the-food-security-challenge-in-anage-of-falling-water-tables-and-rising-temperatures/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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