Pessimism on the Food Front

Paul R. Ehrlich and John Harte
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Paul R. Ehrlich: Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
John Harte: Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 4, 1-5

Abstract: Virtually all trends, biophysical and socioeconomic, suggest that levels of hunger, already high, will only increase as the human population grows and its life-support systems are degraded. Steps that might ameliorate the situation are, unhappily, nowhere in sight.

Keywords: hunger; water; soil; population; climate disruption; toxins; agricultural yields (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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