PowerSwitch

stevecook 172001. You are right, we do need less people on the planet but we don't want the reduction to include ourselves or our children. Most recent famines have been in poor countries, but it is us in the highly mechanised West that will suffer when our farming system fails. I will try to answer...

Fossil fuels also make the nitrates and mine the potash required for growing crops. Just replacing the tractors in only half the story That is true. Nitrogen production and distribution uses lots of fossil energy. We need plant breeding programs to produce better legume crops and maybe even cereal ...

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Fossil fuels, especially oil used to power farming, have enabled the world population to triple in the last seventy years. This could be a fatal mistake as fossil fuels are finite and their use results in increased greenhouse gas emissions. The resulting climate change is itself affecting food produ...