内容简介：
If you give a damn about your kids, you owe it to them to read this book. North America is fast approaching a major agricultural crisis because our present system of farming is unsustainable. It is unsustainable because it depends so heavily upon unlimited supplies of oil, gas-based fertilizers, and water, all of which are rapidly running out. It is unsustainable because we are destroying our soil with bad management practices. It is unsustainable because family farms cannot compete with factory farms. Whether from ignorance, lack of concern, or self-indulgent greed, in our blind pursuit of the good life for ourselves, we are squandering irreplaceable natural resources that rightfully belong to our progeny. As a consequence of our mismanagement, we are leaving behind a legacy of problems that may prove insurmountable-unless we change our ways very soon.