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...Persistent drought has laid waste to America's agricultural midsection. Damaged grain harvests in the U.S., Canada and China will result in the sharpest ever one-year drop in world grain stocks, Worldwatch Institute reported last week...
...launched one morning last week, the stage props included a glass of grapefruit juice, a bowl of All Bran and a banana, a worn corduroy suit with an outlandish bow tie, and a solitary walk on snow- soaked Hush Puppies down Washington's 19th Street to the offices of Worldwatch Institute. Nary a TV anchorman found his way to the proceedings...
Brown has an imposing record as a prophet. He foresaw the food crisis in India when he worked for John Kennedy's Department of Agriculture. Worldwatch, founded ten years ago with the help of the Rockefeller brothers, predicted the current African famines. Brown and his dozen diligent helpers claim no special powers, only a willingness to mine other people's statistics. Worldwatch is plugged into 70 research institutes around the globe and has access to computer data from the United Nations, World Bank and the U.S. Government...
Most impressive is Brown's growing audience, estimated in the hundreds of millions. The report is sold, not given away (in the U.S., the tab is $9.95), the income from it and other publications paying more than half of Worldwatch's expenses. State of the World will be printed in nine languages, total 150,000 copies by year's end and find its way into 122 nations. The Chinese produce three different versions (John Naisbitt's Megatrends rates only two versions). Interestingly, China has mounted a campaign to shrink the percentage of its budget spent on defense and spur economic...
...experts say a tolerable limit is a five-ton loss. So if nothing more is done, in less than 50 years the great resource on which rests our national strength and confidence will begin to ebb. And we could lose more than that, says Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute in Washington. A thousand years ago, the Mayan civilization in the Guatemalan lowlands disappeared in a few decades after 17 centuries of development. Modern analysis found that this agriculture-intensive society collapsed when the topsoil...