Brace for Impact: Surviving the Crash of the Industrial Age by Sustainable Living

by Thomas A. Lewis

Book Overview

Brace for Impact begins with chapters on the mounting failures of industrial agriculture. "Losing Ground" chronicles the destruction wrought by the way agribusiness grows crops, and "Fat of the Land" the horrors--and dangers--of the way it raises animals. With subsequent chapters on water (dwindling supplies and worsening pollution), imminent oil shortages (peak oil, in fact, may already have arrived) and rampant problems in the electrical grid (for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1432747320
• ISBN13: 9781432747329
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.2" x 6.1"