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Outgrowing The Earth

The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures

by Lester R. Brown

Outgrowing The Earth

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Global Health

Addressing Hunger and Poverty

More than a billion people live in extreme poverty, plagued by diseases such as AIDS and malaria, and without enough fresh water to drink or food to eat. Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute, tell Ira Flatow about meeting the needs of a growing population.Can science and technology play a role?

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