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The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
The Big Ratchet How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
Author: Ruth DeFries
Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in the history of life as to verge on the miraculous. The Big Ratchet is the story of how it happened, of the ratchets?the technologies and innovations, big and small?that ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465044979
ISBN-10: 0465044972
Publication Date: 9/9/2014
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Audio CD
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