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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"Suspenseful, superbly informative, crucial."
- Louise Erdrich"Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.... Egan's book is bursting with life (and yes, death)."
- Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review"Fascinating and brilliant... Egan's narrative often moves like a thriller."
- Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Los Angeles Review of Books
About the author
Dan Egan is the author of the
New York Times bestseller
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes. A two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, he lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with his wife and children.
