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Category Archives: Agriculture
The Invisible oiliness of everything
Preface. Even a simple object like a pencil requires dozens of actions to make and dozens of objects that took energy to make. This is why it is unlikely wind, solar, or any other contraption that make electricity, have a … Continue reading
Will life after peak oil be like the middle ages?
Preface. Winston recreates what life was like from the 5th to the 15th centuries — from the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the Renaissance. Energyskeptic.com shows why hydrogen, wind, solar, geothermal, nuclear, fusion, and other alternatives … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Agriculture, Biomass, Life Before Oil
Tagged biomass, life before oil, middle ages, wood world
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So you want to start a vertical farm?
Preface. Vertical farms sound even more impossible than rooftop farms, which at least can use free sunshine. And they use massive amounts of energy to heat, cool, ventilate, light, and so on, not a good direction to go given energy … Continue reading
Vanishing open spaces: population growth and sprawl in America
Before the fossil fuel age began, about 80 to 90% of people farmed to make a living. Since the end of the oil age will send us back to the past, farmland and farmers will once again comprise the greatest … Continue reading
Book review of Dirt: the erosion of civilization
Preface. On average civilizations collapsed after 800 to 2,000 years because they’d destroyed their topsoil. Today, industrial agriculture is doing this far faster – in most of the United States half of the original topsoil is gone from the richest … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Agriculture, Peak Food, Soil
Tagged agriculture, erosion, peak food, peak soil, soil
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75% of Earth’s Land Areas Are Degraded. Environmental damage threatens 3.2 billion people.
Preface. Yikes, by 2050 95% of Earth’s land could be degraded and reduce or even end food production, forcing hundreds of millions to migrate. Whatever you’ve read in the past about the State of the World, it’s gotten even … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity Loss, Limits To Growth, Peak Food
Tagged biodiversity, erosion, limits to growth, peak food
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Would we be happier as hunter gatherers than farming?
[ Someone posted an article in facebook from the New Yorker titled “The case against civilization. Did our hunter-gatherer ancestors have it better?” And the author’s answer is a resounding “yes” backed only by bullshit. I was so annoyed I … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Agriculture, Human Nature
Tagged agriculture, farmers, golden age, hunter-gatherer
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Battling the Inland Sea, the history of why and how the levee system was built in California’s delta
[ When settlers first moved to farm the central valley, they found it was often flooded with water, not the “desert” people often claim California to be. A vast swamp over 100 miles long of half a million acres of … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Agriculture, Dams, Floods, Floods
Tagged california, flood, levee
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U.S. farmers destroy future food production for centuries with modern farming methods
[ Below are excerpts from a devastating critique of current farming practices by the National research council. Here are some of the main points. “Most food is produced by farmers who rely on agriculture for their livelihood. …surveys repeatedly show … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Air, Biodiversity Loss, Climate Change, Groundwater, Limits To Growth, Peak Food, Pesticides, Soil, Water
Tagged air pollution, CRP, erosion, eutrophication, topsoil, water pollution
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