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How will we feed ourselves?
What a fossil-fuel free agriculture might look like |
Jon Rynn |
06 Dec 2007 |
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| At some point in the future, humanity will have to produce its food without the help of fossil fuels and without destroying the soil. In a well-researched and succinct new essay, 'What will we eat as the oil runs out?', Richard Heinberg analyzes the main problems with the global agricultural system, and proposes a solution: a global organic food system. Heinberg lays out four major dilemmas of the current system: The direct impacts on agriculture of higher oil pric ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, energy, food, fossil fuels, local food, organic food (all these topics) |
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