Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner: The bible of water use in the Western United States.
Food Politics by Marion Nestle: How agribusinesses influence your food choices.
American Wasteland by Jonathan Bloom: An astonishing amount of food gets wasted. Wasted food means wasted water. See page 21.
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell: Free markets are distorted by all sorts of agribusiness subsidies., price supports, etc. This is a basic book on how free markets should work.
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith: Published in 1776. The father of economics, which is the creation of wealth. Not to be confused with socialism, as advocated by Marx and Keynes. Socialism is not economics. It is politics. It is not the creation of wealth. It is the redistribution of wealth to those who think they are entitled to wealth even though they will not work and will not learn.
Robert Gilchrist Huenemann March 25, 2023