{"product_id":"9780128023587","title":"Feeding Everyone No Matter What: Managing Food Security After Global Catastrophe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeeding Everyone No Matter What\u003c\/b\u003e presents a scientific approach to the practicalities of planning for long-term interruption to food production.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe primary historic solution developed over the last several decades is increased food storage. However, storing up enough food to feed everyone would take a significant amount of time and would increase the price of food, killing additional people due to inadequate global access to affordable food. Humanity is far from doomed, however, in these situations - there are solutions. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book provides an order of magnitude technical analysis comparing caloric requirements of all humans for five years with conversion of existing vegetation and fossil fuels to edible food. It presents mechanisms for global-scale conversion including: natural gas-digesting bacteria, extracting food from leaves, and conversion of fiber by enzymes, mushroom or bacteria growth, or a two-step process involving partial decomposition of fiber by fungi and\/or bacteria and feeding them to animals such as beetles, ruminants (cows, deer, etc), rats and chickens. It includes an analysis to determine the ramp rates for each option and the results show that careful planning and global cooperation could ensure the bulk of humanity and biodiversity could be maintained in even in the most extreme circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSummarizes the severity and probabilities of global catastrophe scenarios, which could lead to a complete loss of agricultural production\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMore than 10 detailed mechanisms for global-scale solutions to the food crisis and their evaluation to test their viability\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDetailed roadmap for future R\u0026amp;D for human survival after global catastrophe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Elsevier Science","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108554424560,"sku":"9780128023587","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780128023587_p0.jpg?v=1763640712","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780128023587","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}