Abstract
Abstract In the early Cold War years, neo-Malthusian authors alarmed many readers with predictions that food and other resources would fall short in supplying rapidly growing populations as ecological conditions worsened. Louis Bromfield, a prominent author, political commentator and soil conservationist, countered the neo-Malthusians by claiming that modernising farming reforms, particularly involving better care of the soil, would allow long-time abundance to continue. He undertook exemplary projects in the US Midwest, the US South and southern Brazil. Bromfield and his cohort mingled ideas about soil, health, politics and both domestic and international modernisation in ways that call into question long-time scholarly distinctions between conservation and environmentalism, while underscoring how US regional stereotypes fed into the nation's Cold War ideas about international development. Bromfield's argument that conservation was integral to modernisation did not become the dominant practice, and agricultural conservation remains a significant environmental need.
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