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A World Without Soil Medicolegal issues clarity and a sense ofA celebrated biologist's manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change Jo Handelsman is a national treasure, and her clarion call warning of a looming soil loss catastrophe must be heard. Add her clearly written alarm to other future shocks: climate change, pandemics, and mass extinctions.Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out