Perilous Bounty Quotes

“In short, California’s climate, chaotic under normal conditions, is about to get weirder and wilder. Indeed, it’s already happening.”
― Tom Philpott, Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It

“Today, just about 380,000 acres of wetland23 remain, about 9 percent of the nearly 4 million acres that existed in the 1850s—and that was preserved only after a heroic push for restoration by environmentalists horrified by the destruction of crucial habitat for wild birds along the Pacific Flyway.”
― Tom Philpott, Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It