01-23-2010
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Re: What will you do in the future?
I think there will be a massive Collapse that will kill off most of the human race. To be specific, I believe we are heading toward a worldwide famine because of Peak Oil, ie the depletion of cheaply available fossil fuels. What's the connection, you ask? Simply this:
Modern (ie, industrial) agriculture uses an average of ten calories of fossil fuel energy for every calorie of food it produces. The fertilizer necessary for the huge crop yields is made from natural gas. The fleets of tractors and combines run on gasoline. Even the pesticides are partly petroleum-based. The transportation network that carries the raw food to processing and the processed food to the store runs on a sea of gasoline. And of course, there's the cooking at home, and the refrigeration at the factory, the supermarket, and at home....
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