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laodan discovered 10 months ago- Agriculture In A Post-Oil Economy in CounterCurrents by Peter Goodchild
The decline in the worldu2019s oil supply offers no sudden dramatic event that would appeal to the writer of "apocalyptic" science fiction: no mushroom clouds, no flying saucers, no giant meteorites. The future will be just like today, only tougher. Oil depletion is basically just a matter of overpopulation u2014 too many people and not enough resources. The most serious consequence will be a lack of food. The problem of oil therefore leads, in an apparently mundane fashion, to the problem of farming. To what extent could food be produced in a world without fossil fuels? In the year 2000, humanity consumed about 30 billion barrels of oil, but the supply is starting to run out; without oil and natural gas, there will be no fuel, no asphalt, no plastics, no chemical fertilizer. Most people in modern industrial civilization live on food that was bought from a local supermarket, but such food will not always be available. Agriculture in the future will be largely a "family affair": without motorized vehicles, food will have to be produced not far from where it was consumed. But what crops should be grown? How much land would be needed? Where could people be supported by such methods of agriculture? Agriculture In A Post-Oil Economy We could have reached peak oil in 2006. Some argue it's 2006 others that it is 2010 and others still that it comes sometime during the next decade but this changes nothing to the consequences that humanity will soon start to experience. Knowing that peak oil is followed by a gradual decline of oil extraction while world demand continues to expand energy prices have only one way to go and that's up. Escalating prices of energy will directly reflect in our daily lives on the cost of transportation, the cost of controlling the temperature in our homes and the cost of food. If we add the impact of globalization that reduces the level of incomes in Western countries (at the exclusion of the richest 5%) an image starts to form in our mind, an image of much misery... One could say that this is for later after one's passing away. But no this is something that is already well under way and we'll gradually suffer more severe consequences.
- Agriculture In A Post-Oil Economy in CounterCurrents by Peter Goodchild
