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He states that political leaders everywhere need to recognize that "the world is now on a demographic and economic path that is environmentally unsustainable." Using Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan as the only examples of countries that were densely populated when they embarked on rapid industrialization, similar to China's present situation, Br

• Title : Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet (Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)
• Author : Lester Russell Brown
• Rating : 4.52 (284 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-7-10
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 163 Pages
• Asin : 0393038971
• Language : English

He states that political leaders everywhere need to recognize that "the world is now on a demographic and economic path that is environmentally unsustainable." Using Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan as the only examples of countries that were densely populated when they embarked on rapid industrialization, similar to China's present situation, Brown points out that these countries developed in such a way that they were compelled to import the majority of the grain their populations consumed. . Brown argues persuasively that the major world challenge in the future is not military aggression but, rather, food scarcity. Highly recommended.Peggy Spitzer Christoff, Oak Park, Ill.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. He cites many reasons for the dependence on foreign grain, including growing land scarcity, migration to the city from farms, overpopulation, water scarcity, and unstable prices on the world market. From Library Journal Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute and recipient of numerous environmental awards, predicts that China's current breakneck industrialization will lead to massive

He has been honored with numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the United Nations Environment Prize, and twenty-five honorary degrees. Brown is the founder of the Earth Policy and Worldwatch Institutes. Lester R.

. He lives in Washington, D.C

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Analysts foresaw that the recent four-year doubling of income for China's 1.2 billion consumers would increase food demand, especially for meat, eggs, and beer. But when China, a market ten times bigger, starts importing, there may not be enough grain in the world to meet that need - and food prices will rise steeply for everyone. When Japan, a nation of just 125 million, began to import food, world grain markets rejoiced. In Who Will Feed China: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet, Lester Brown shows that even as water becomes more scarce in a land where 80 percent of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of cropland to industrialization, and as food production stagnates, China still increases its population by the equivalent of a new Beijing each year. But these analysts assumed that food production would rise to meet those demands.. To feed its 1.2 billion people, China may soon have to import so much grain that this action could trigger unprecedented rises in world food prices