It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end

A favourite book of Jean-Marie Dhur

More than three hundred years later

Introduction by Lawrence Kumpf and Magnus Nygren

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A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet Beer It is the mid-1800s andA celebrated biologists 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