From Infectious Greed:

Not exactly upbeat reading, but Lester Brown's polemic in the current Scientific American on the coming global food crisis is worth a look. He argues that "food shortages could bring down civilization".

On the other hand, as Ron Bailey points out, Brown has said this sort of thing many times in the past, and been wrong.

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