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Category Archives: Agriculture
Book review of Failing states, collapsing systems biophysical triggers of political violence by Nafeez Ahmed
[ In this post I summarize the sections of Nafeez’s book about the biophysical factors that bring nations down (i.e. climate change drought & water scarcity, declining revenues after peak oil, etc.) The Media tend to focus exclusively on economic … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Cascading Failure, Caused by Scarce Resources, Collapse of Civilizations, Collapsing, Drought, Drought, Exports decline to ZERO, Interdependencies, Limits To Growth, Middle East, Net Energy Cliff, Other Experts, Over Oil, Overpopulation, Peak Oil, Violence, War & Violence
Tagged climate change, drought, Export Land Model, peak oil, population, water scarcity
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Climate change impacts on agriculture in the U.S.
[ I’ve added a senate hearing from 2013 on drought, fire, and freeze effects on agriculture below. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation, 2015, Springer] Notes from 25 page: Hatfield, J., … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, BioInvasion, Drought, Extreme Weather, Heat, Soil, Soil, Water, Where to Be or Not to Be
Tagged climage change, disease, erosion, food production, pests, soil, water, weeds
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China food security: climate change likely to reduce rice, wheat, and other crop yields
Climate change is also likely to lower wheat production: Global warming will have a bad effect on heat-sensitive wheat, slashing yields even more than was originally feared. It could be much harder than we thought to feed everyone in a … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Starvation
Tagged china, climate change, starvation
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