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"This is not an environmental book, even though it is concerned with the environment. It is not a book to save the world, even though the world is clearly in trouble. Ultimately, A Matter Of Scale is a book about survival; about ensuring that every individual human has the means to save herself or himself from the crisis that is unfolding. And there most certainly is a crisis; like the waves of a surging river; small and irregular at first, but growing larger, creating whirlpools, rising in treacherous white water, and eventually inundating everything in its path. People know that the climate is changing, that species are being removed from the Earth at a rapidly increasing rate, that entire ecosystems are becoming shadows of their former richness; they know, but they do not understand. The environmental crisis is closing in on humanity from all directions, yet the crisis barely registers on this culture's list of problems. As we stand, humanity is doomed to a collapse that will leave only a few nomads, and a toxic, barely survivable Earth in its wake."

"Este artículo relata nueve casos de alimentos comunes en nuestra mesa que esconden detrás problemas medioambientales. 1. El aguacate en México 2. Las naranjas en Brasil 3. El salmón en Noruega, Chile y Escocia 4. Las almendras en California 5. Los langostinos en Tailandia 6. El aceite de palma en Malasia e Indonesia 7. La panga en Vietnam 8. Las fresas en Doñana 9. El embutido en Cataluña"