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By Patricia (UK) Dodd Racher
Food and water supplies will diminish during the 21st century. Environmental degradation will cut crop yields. The end of cheap oil will raise the costs of industrial farming. Global warming, fanned by carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels, is already altering climatic zones and weather patterns, creating new dangers for farmers. Empty Plates Tomorrow? considers the global outlook for food production, with detailed examples from two contrasting nations. Firstly, Wales, where globalisation has made environmentally-friendly mixed farming totally uneconomic, and secondly Cuba, where in the 1990s the socialist government promoted urban farms to overcome hunger, but has since drawn back from promoting food self-sufficiency in favour of using cheap oil from Venezuela to fuel industrial growth. The oil will not last forever. It may not last more than 30 or 40 years. In coming decades the fossil energy to make synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, and to power farm machinery and freight vehicles, will have diminished to an uncertain trickle. We will not be able to take anything for granted: not fresh water, not rainfall, not even the land we live on if it is anywhere near sea level, because melting glaciers will pour vast quantities of water into the oceans. A hotter world will make farming hugely more difficult. We can take some steps to moderate the impact of these threats to our food security, including re-localising food production to minimise food miles, and returning to organic farming to cut applications of energy-guzzling synthetic fertilisers and pesticides. More of us will need to work in agriculture, and all of us will have to slash the amount of energy we use. Empty Plates Tomorrow? highlights the damaging interactions between fossil fuel extraction, industrialisation, environmental pollution, climate change, and political and business power, but also points to the vital role of individual pioneers who can transform public opinion.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Wayne Mosby
The author's personal experience over 30 years living and working beside a river that floods. As well as doing engineering on other rivers with the potential of flood. Mr. Mosby's engineering experience reflects the same knowledge that the Chinese used 4,000 years ago. They removed river rock and debris at a gallon at a time on their backs. This debris was then placed on the banks of the river to contain the river while it was flooding.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Alvin JacQues
From avalanches to volcanoes, and from the Gulf Oil Spill to bridge collapses, author Alvin JacQues explores the fascinating world of disasters—both manmade and natural. Inspired by his survival of Hurricane Katrina, chronicled in his first book Catastrophic Gumbo, JacQues delivers a compilation of facts and commentary on a number of global natural and manmade disasters, both historical and more recent, that have impacted the human race. Gathered from more than sixty locations, JacQues details the mayhem caused by a range of events that include an F5 tornado in Oklahoma, a typhoon in China, a blizzard in the United States, the flood of 1889, the sinking of the Titanic, and the crash of Flight 111. A compelling collection of stories, Catastrophic Companions narrates the reality of extreme events and communicates not only the power of Mother Nature, but of the perseverance of the human race to endure these tragedies for which often there is no preparation.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Alvin JacQues
From avalanches to volcanoes, and from the Gulf Oil Spill to bridge collapses, author Alvin JacQues explores the fascinating world of disasters—both manmade and natural. Inspired by his survival of Hurricane Katrina, chronicled in his first book Catastrophic Gumbo, JacQues delivers a compilation of facts and commentary on a number of global natural and manmade disasters, both historical and more recent, that have impacted the human race. Gathered from more than sixty locations, JacQues details the mayhem caused by a range of events that include an F5 tornado in Oklahoma, a typhoon in China, a blizzard in the United States, the flood of 1889, the sinking of the Titanic, and the crash of Flight 111. A compelling collection of stories, Catastrophic Companions narrates the reality of extreme events and communicates not only the power of Mother Nature, but of the perseverance of the human race to endure these tragedies for which often there is no preparation.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By ALVIN JACQUES
There’s no doubt that Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating weather events to hit the United States—costing lives, property, and prosperity. In Catastrophic Gumbo, author Alvin JacQues provides a firsthand look at the facts, drama, details, and aftermath of this powerful storm. A survivor of Hurricane Katrina, JacQues considers himself lucky to be alive, and he credits his strong faith in God for both his survival and the opportunity to tell his story. In this memoir, he examines the enormous devastation and causalities and tells a heroic tale of survival. Catastrophic Gumbo includes more than thirty stories that describe what really happened during this natural disaster—including his rescue by the Coast Guard, his experience of six days of chaos at the Superdome, the drowning of his mother, the ever-present death and destruction that he witnessed, and the corruption of the New Orleans Police Department. A compelling account, Catastrophic Gumbo gives a behind-the-scenes and personal look at the before, during, and after of this tragedy that hit Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama in 2005.
FORMAT: Softcover
By ALVIN JACQUES
There’s no doubt that Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating weather events to hit the United States—costing lives, property, and prosperity. In Catastrophic Gumbo, author Alvin JacQues provides a firsthand look at the facts, drama, details, and aftermath of this powerful storm. A survivor of Hurricane Katrina, JacQues considers himself lucky to be alive, and he credits his strong faith in God for both his survival and the opportunity to tell his story. In this memoir, he examines the enormous devastation and causalities and tells a heroic tale of survival. Catastrophic Gumbo includes more than thirty stories that describe what really happened during this natural disaster—including his rescue by the Coast Guard, his experience of six days of chaos at the Superdome, the drowning of his mother, the ever-present death and destruction that he witnessed, and the corruption of the New Orleans Police Department. A compelling account, Catastrophic Gumbo gives a behind-the-scenes and personal look at the before, during, and after of this tragedy that hit Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama in 2005.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By ALVIN JACQUES
There’s no doubt that Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating weather events to hit the United States—costing lives, property, and prosperity. In Catastrophic Gumbo, author Alvin JacQues provides a firsthand look at the facts, drama, details, and aftermath of this powerful storm. A survivor of Hurricane Katrina, JacQues considers himself lucky to be alive, and he credits his strong faith in God for both his survival and the opportunity to tell his story. In this memoir, he examines the enormous devastation and causalities and tells a heroic tale of survival. Catastrophic Gumbo includes more than thirty stories that describe what really happened during this natural disaster—including his rescue by the Coast Guard, his experience of six days of chaos at the Superdome, the drowning of his mother, the ever-present death and destruction that he witnessed, and the corruption of the New Orleans Police Department. A compelling account, Catastrophic Gumbo gives a behind-the-scenes and personal look at the before, during, and after of this tragedy that hit Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama in 2005.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Alvin JacQues
From avalanches to volcanoes, and from the Gulf Oil Spill to bridge collapses, author Alvin JacQues explores the fascinating world of disasters—both manmade and natural. Inspired by his survival of Hurricane Katrina, chronicled in his first book Catastrophic Gumbo, JacQues delivers a compilation of facts and commentary on a number of global natural and manmade disasters, both historical and more recent, that have impacted the human race. Gathered from more than sixty locations, JacQues details the mayhem caused by a range of events that include an F5 tornado in Oklahoma, a typhoon in China, a blizzard in the United States, the flood of 1889, the sinking of the Titanic, and the crash of Flight 111. A compelling collection of stories, Catastrophic Companions narrates the reality of extreme events and communicates not only the power of Mother Nature, but of the perseverance of the human race to endure these tragedies for which often there is no preparation.
FORMAT: E-Book
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