"Eliminating water shortages depends on a global attempt to raise water productivity similar to the effort launched a half-century ago to raise land productivity, an initiative that has nearly tripled the world grain yield per hectare." –Lester R. Brown, World Facing Huge New Challenge on Food Front in Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Lester Brown on Science Friday
May 22, 2009
Interview of Lester Brown by Ira Flatow, NPR's Science Friday, discussing how food shortages could bring down civilization.