Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis - Brossura

Jacobsen, Rowan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1596916397 ISBN 13: 9781596916395

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2009

Riassunto

"Jacobsen reminds readers that bees provide not just the sweetness of honey, but also are a crucial link in the life cycle of our crops."—Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time with no pollination and no fruit. The fruitless fall nearly became a reality when, in 2007, beekeepers watched thirty billion bees mysteriously die. And they continue to disappear. The remaining pollinators, essential to the cultivation of a third of American crops, are now trucked across the country and flown around the world, pushing them ever closer to collapse. Fruitless Fall does more than just highlight this growing agricultural catastrophe. It emphasizes the miracle of flowering plants and their pollination partners, and urges readers not to take the abundance of our Earth for granted. A new afterword by the author tracks the most recent developments in this ongoing crisis.

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L'autore

Rowan Jacobsen is the James Beard Award– winning author of A Geography of Oysters and Fruitless Fall. Jacobsen's writings on food, the environment, and their interconnected nature have appeared in the New York Times, Wild Earth, Harper's, Eating Well, and Newsweek. He lives in rural Vermont with his wife and son.

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Book by Jacobsen Rowan

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1596916397
• ISBN 13: 9781596916395
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 282