• ISBN13: 9781324074724
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: June 4, 2024
• Pages: 304
• Original Price: USD 18.99
• Language: English
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<p><b>From the Back Cover</b><br>"[Phosphorus] today is precious and finite in the same way fossil fuels are. Yet we are blowing through Earth's accessible deposits at such a pace that, just like oil production, some scientists now fear we could hit 'peak phosphorus' in just a matter of decades, at which point we risk declining mining yields-- and chronic food scarcity.... Call it the phosphorus paradox--at the same time as we are drawing down our increasingly precious caches of mineable phosphorus rock we are overdosing our waters with it." --from the introduction<br /><br /><strong>Praise for Dan Egan's <em>The Death and Life of the Great Lakes</em></strong><br /><br /> "Suspenseful, superbly informative, crucial."<br /><strong>-- Louise Erdrich</strong><br /><br /> "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.... Egan's book is bursting with life (and yes, death)."<br /><strong>-- Robert Moor, <em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong><br /><br /> "Fascinating and brilliant... Egan's narrative often moves like a thriller."<br /><strong>-- Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, <em>Los Angeles Review of Books</em></strong></p>