Breakpoint : reckoning with America's environmental crises /
Jeremy B.C. Jackson and Steve Chapple.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 296 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Heartland. Corn off the cob -- Food versus fuel -- Where's the food? -- Don't drink that! -- Coast. Delta dawn -- Blue bayou -- The fate of a great city -- Too Little Water and Too Much. Sea level rise is dangerous -- Retreat from the coasts -- Agriculture in crisis -- Reinventing agriculture -- Epilogue: America at the crossroads.
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Environmental policy--United States. Environmental degradation--United States. Environmental disasters--United States. Ecology--Economic aspects--United States.