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Feeding Everyone No Matter What : Managing Food Security After Global Catastrophe by Denkenberger, David Charles; Pearce, Joshua is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**NB:** Due to the inadvertent assignment of a previously used ISBN, this book was originally published under an incorrect identifying number. The book has now been given its own unique ISBN and is otherwise identical in every way to the original publication. **Feeding Everyone No Matter What** presents a scientific approach to the practicalities of planning for long-term interruption to food production. The 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. This 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 involvi

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Author

Denkenberger, David Charles; Pearce, Joshua

Publisher

Elsevier Science & Technology; Academic Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780128023587

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Economics, Management