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Phosphorus Shortages Pose Serious Threat to Global Food Production

Global food production faces yet another serious threat - a devastating shortage of phosphorus, an element vital to the farming industry and one for which we have no synthetic alternative. As the following article states, "Quite simply, without phosphorus we cannot produce food."

This is yet another reason why we need a drastic reduction in U.S. and world population to a level that would be sustainable indefinitely.

To read the entire article from the Times Online, visit Scientists warn of lack of vital phosphorus as biofuels raise demand.

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The Edge of the Abyss, by Lindsey Grant (see page 7)