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Chapter 1: Food Security

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“MY MOTHER DIED TOO YOUNG. She was only 90, but
she knew everything, or so it seemed. She lived through the
transition, and she had a million stories. Her generation
was smart. They combined the old ways with the new
ways and brought life out of every inch of soil. They made
things grow in dead deserts, in swamp water and even from
thin air. We all know these things now. This is the future.
This is life, reinvented.” —Sylva Terrasdottir, 2100

2014 Climate change leads to Resilience The last major Genetically “enhanced” 2
desertification of major grain- gardening supermarket products sold to thousands
and corn-producing regions, becomes a major chain in the of elementary schools
creating vast shortages movement in the U.S. declares result in a health disaster.
worldwide. Global wheat U.S., as small-scale bankruptcy, as Biotech-modified foods,
speculators turn what might food production citizens rally already under suspicion,
have been a manageable crisis becomes a around co- become highly unpopular,
into starvation for almost 3 national obsession. operative stores and strict labeling
billion people. and local farms. standards are applied.
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