Dan Egan
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The Devil's Element

Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

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"[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 Praise for Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes "Sus...