Lester R. Brown Quotes:
Ocupation: Environmentalist
Life: b. March 28, 1934
Birthday: March 28
Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive algal bloom covering some 16,000 square kilometers. As the blooms die off, this area-roughly the size of New Jersey-is so deprived of oxygen that no fish survive.
source: Lester R. Brown, Michael Renner (2014). “Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future”, p.25, Routledge
topic: Nitrogen, Farmland, Gulf Of Mexico
