“”The Colorado study has caused a stir in the soil world… accompanied by a sobering analysis … that we are repeating the mistakes of past civilisations, over-exploiting the land until it goes beyond the point of no return, and leads to a vicious circle of famine, and then social disintegration.””
Dust to Dust: a man-made Malthusian crisis — We must wake up to the global land crisis or face a very real threat of famine, Daily Telegraph.