false <![CDATA[Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food And the Coming Crisis in Agriculture]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179795362m/956844.jpg 956844 1 <p>The miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. Estimates of the net energy balance of agriculture in the US show that ten calories of hydrocarbon energy are required to produce one calorie of food. Such an imbalance cannot continue in a world of diminishing hydrocarbon resources.</p> <p><i>Eating Fossil Fuels</i> examines the interlinked crises of energy and agriculture and highlights some startling findings:<ul compact type="disc"><li>The world-wide expansion of agriculture has appropriated fully 40% of the photosynthetic capability of this planet. </li><li>The Green Revolution provided abundant food sources for many, resulting in a population explosion well in excess of the planet's carrying capacity.</li><li>Studies suggest that without fossil fuel based agriculture, the US could only sustain about two thirds of its present population. For the planet as a whole, the sustainable number is estimated to be about two billion.</li></ul></p><p>Concluding that the effect of energy depletion will be disastrous without a transition to a sustainable, relocalized agriculture, the book draws on the experiences of North Korea and Cuba to demonstrate stories of failure and success in the transition to non-hydrocarbon-based agriculture. It urges strong grassroots activism for sustainable, localized agriculture and a natural shrinking of the world's population.</p> 941754 1 10 2006 Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food And the Coming Crisis in Agriculture total:21|5:5|4:9|3:7|2:0|1:0| 21 82 51 6 956844 0865715653 9780865715653 21 6 Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food And the Coming Crisis in Agriculture 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179795362m/956844.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/956844.Eating_Fossil_Fuels_Oil_Food_And_the_Coming_Crisis_in_Agriculture 3 2 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 04:22:16 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 15:32:11 -0700 2008 SurvivingPeakOil.com website, delivers a rather bleak diatribe about the failed state of unsustainable world agricult...more...]]> 956844 0865715653 9780865715653 21 6 Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food And the Coming Crisis in Agriculture 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179795362m/956844.jpg 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