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Egan, Dan, author.
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Food supply -- Environmental aspects.
Phosphorus in agriculture -- Environmental aspects.
Fertilizer industry -- Environmental aspects.
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The devil's element ...
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The devil's element : phosphorus and a world out of balance / Dan Egan.
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Egan, Dan, author.
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Subjects
Food supply -- Environmental aspects.
Phosphorus in agriculture -- Environmental aspects.
Fertilizer industry -- Environmental aspects.
ISBN:
9781324002666 (hardcover) :
1324002662 (hardcover)
Description:
xxvii, 228 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Part I: the race for phosphorus -- The devil's element -- The circle of life, broken -- Bones to stones -- War of the sands -- Part II: the cost of phosphorus -- Dirty soap -- Toxic water -- Empty beaches -- A liquid heart, diseased -- Part III: the future of phosphorus -- Waste not.
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"The story of phosphorus spans the globe and vast tracts of human history. The race to mine phosphorus took people from the battlefields of Waterloo, which were looted for the bones of fallen soldiers, to the fabled guano islands off Peru, the Bone Valley of Florida, and the sand dunes of the Western Sahara. Over the past century, phosphorus has made farming vastly more productive, feeding the enormous increase in the human population. Yet, as Egan harrowingly reports, our overreliance on this vital crop nutrient is today causing toxic algae blooms and dead zones in waterways from the coasts of Florida to the Mississippi River basin to the Great Lakes and beyond. Egan also explores the alarming reality that diminishing access to phosphorus poses a threat to the food system worldwide--which risks rising conflict and even war"--
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