According to some predictions, climate change caused by human activity could cause mass extinction in the oceans, redraw the planet's coastlines, and ravage world food supplies. (discovermagazine.com)
The book also provoked criticism in the West from scholars who couldn't accept that a rising China, with many millions of people aspiring to better diets, will inevitably tax world food supplies. (scientificamerican.com)
Humanity currently depends on atmospheric nitrogen to produce enough fertilizer to maintain world food supply. (rdmag.com)