Environmental and consumer activists have for a long time blamed pesticides, fertilizers and other aspects of modern farming for causing environmental degradation and human disease. Yet, as the authors of this book show, intensive farming has enabled growth in food production at a rate greater that population growth, thereby ensuring that people are better fed than ever before, whilst simultaneously limiting the effect of farming on the environment. The authors debunk numerous pervasive myths.
Meticulously researched and textured with fascinating details, these essays "show" as well as "tell" where Russia has been in the past fifteen years and where it is going.
This book explores a problem that has been building quietly for years: the military has been expending without expanding or even replacing what has been spent.
