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Tag Archives: starvation
Menhaden: the fish at the bottom of the ocean food web
Preface. Oil has allowed us to extract 90% of the fish in the ocean by being able to go to the ends of the earth using sonar and spotting planes to find the last schools. Menhaden have been overfished for … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Fisheries, Jobs and Skills, Starvation
Tagged extinction, fisheries, menhaden, radioactive shellfish, starvation
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Limits to Growth: Natural gas fertilizer that feeds 4 billion of us
Preface. In chapter 4 of my book “Life After Fossil Fuels: A Reality Check on Alternative Energy“, I explain how it came to be that fertilizer is made out of natural gas, using the energy of natural gas, and why … Continue reading
Posted in Life After Fossil Fuels, Limits To Growth, Natural Gas, Peak Food, Starvation
Tagged agriculture, food, peak food, peak natural gas, starvation
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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 Food production, Starvation
Tagged china, climate change, starvation
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Birth Control Impossible due to Religion, they prefer you die of starvation, disease, and war
What a horror: so-called “Pro-Life” religions force their nasty beliefs on a woman’s right to control her own destiny and a civilizations ability to decently house and feed citizens, dooming societies of the future crazed from hunger and disease brought … Continue reading
Posted in Birth Control, What to do
Tagged birth control, collapse, disease, hunger, pro-life, religion, starvation, war, women's right to choose
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