The Silent Aquifer: Humanity's Accelerating Food and Water Crisis (The Stone and Water Series)
Kindle Edition or EPUB + Converted PDF نویسندگان: Pierre Kory MD MPA
جزئیات
فرمت: Kindle Edition or EPUB + Converted PDF ناشر: Kory Publishing, LLC تاریخ انتشار نسخه الکترونیکی : August 10, 2026
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شابک: 9798997459567 لینک: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDQ13SXF
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توضیحات
The food is running short. The water is running short. They are the same crisis.We set the deadline at 2050. The crisis is already here.To feed the world's projected 2050 population, crop yields need to rise by about 2.4 percent every year. Scientists set that mark in 2013 and fired the starting gun. For the entire decade since, the world has run at less than half that pace, falling farther behind with each season. Agriculture already consumes nearly 70 percent of humanity's freshwater, and it is moving toward a 40 percent gap between the water it needs and the water it can get. The deadline is 2050. We have been losing ground since the day the clock started.The warning signs are here now. Around the world, soils are growing saltier, aquifers are shrinking, and the water that remains is becoming chemically hostile to the crops it must sustain. Each trend alone is alarming. Together they reveal something starker: a planet moving, within the lifetimes of most people alive today, toward being unable to feed and water its own population.And it is happening in near silence. The world's alarm has fixed on carbon and climate while the water beneath our farmland, the foundation under the entire food supply, fails with almost no one watching. That inattention is part of what makes it so dangerous.As a critical-care physician, Pierre Kory was trained to find the single hidden cause when many systems fail at once. He set out to understand a remarkable aqueous mineral extract drawn from volcanic stone, one that appeared to restore damaged water, revive exhausted soil, and affect the water inside living things. Following it backward led him somewhere far larger: a synchronized planetary transformation unfolding beneath the world's farmland. He calls it the Geohydrological Shift, and the emerging science shows it is already underway.The Silent Aquifer is more than a diagnosis. It builds an evidence-based case that the same volcanic mineral extract may offer a practical path toward recovery. Damaged water systems can be restored. Degraded soils can drain and grow productive again. And the material it takes is common, unpatented, and cheap, already beneath our feet.Inside, Kory traces how the world's aquifers slipped from reserve to overdraft and why the decline now accelerates on its own; why water can run clear and still be chemically dead, and what that costs a soil, a crop, and a body; the volcanic mineral extract that clears and reconditions water at ordinary pressure, with a filter as simple as paper; and an evidence-based path to restoring water and soil at a cost the whole world can afford.A warning in the tradition of the great environmental reckonings, and, unlike most of them, a map of the way back.For readers of Silent Spring, Cadillac Desert, and Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations.
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