Free Download Jo Handelsman, "A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet"
English | ISBN: 0300271115 | 2023 | 280 pages | PDF | 8 MB
A celebrated biologist’s manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change
"Jo Handelsman is a national treasure, and her clarion call warning of a looming soil-loss catastrophe must be heard. Add her clearly written alarm to other future-shocks: climate change, pandemics, and mass extinctions."-Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance
"The ground beneath our feet is slipping away as we lose the precious soil that sustains us. Jo Handelsman’s writing-as rich and life supporting as the soil itself-is a riveting warning."-Alan Alda, actor, writer, and host of the podcast
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