Feeding everyone no matter what : managing food security after global catastrophe / David Denkenberger, Joshua M. Pearce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Denkenberger, David Charles, author.

Pearce, Joshua, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food security.

Sustainability.

Survival.

Physical Description:

xiv, 119 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : AP, Academic Press, [2015]

Summary:

Feeding Everyone No Matter What presents a scientific approach to the practicalities of planning for long-term interruption to food production. The primary historic solution developed over the last several decades is increased food storage. However, storing up enough food to feed everyone would take a significant amount of time and would increase the price of food, killing additional people due to inadequate global access to affordable food. Humanity is far from doomed, however, in these situations - there are solutions. This book provides an order of magnitude technical analysis compari.

Contents:

Introduction

Worldwide Crop Death: The Five Crop-Killing Scenarios

No Sun: Three Sunlight-Killing Scenarios

Food Storage, Food Conservation, and Cannibalism

Stopgap Food Production: Fast food

Fiber Supply for Conversion to Food

Solutions: Stored Biomass/Fossil Fuel Conversion to Food

Practical Matters: Energy, Water, Nutrition, Taste, Biodiversity, and Cooperation

Moral Hazard

Serious Prepping: A Guide to Necessary Research.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapter.

ISBN:

9780128021507

0128021500

OCLC:

903728527