saving the world before breakfast: the earth alone can save us

Throughout history, agricultural success raised up countries and empires. Its failures led to ruin and death in dramas with antagonists such as floods, droughts, insects, blights, and the worst-depleted eroded soils. But, there’s more. Climate scientists gave us a new set of worries about something they call climate change:

--Hotter summers

--More droughts

--Megafires in the forests

--Rising sea

--Crop failures

--And resulting hunger

All of that is predicted to come from increased levels of the trace gas in our exhalations and our car exhausts, carbon dioxide.

Those fears led to a proposal in 2019 for the ＂Green New Deal＂ or ＂GND＂ to choke off most carbon dioxide emissions by 2030. Unfortunately, the GND had some wild details: replacing meat with vegetarian food, replacing most airlines with electrified trains, and rebuilding every building in

America to be more energy efficient. Those things would be fabulously expensive, maybe around ninety trillion (with a T) dollars.

Still, it was good to have an overall response to the perceived threat. That led this author to develop an alternate set of proposals in 2020: Saving the World Before Breakfast: A Better Green New Deal.

That book proposed three major strategies of be