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Author : Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Release : 2006
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Eating Fossil Fuels by : Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Download or read book Eating Fossil Fuels written by Dale Allen Pfeiffer. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finds that the current methods of fossil-fuel based agriculture are not sustainable, and recommends the transition to localized agriculture.
Author : Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Release : 2006-10-01
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Synopsis Eating Fossil Fuels by : Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Download or read book Eating Fossil Fuels written by Dale Allen Pfeiffer. This book was released on 2006-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shocking outline of the interlinked crises in energy and agriculture — and appropriate responses 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. Eating Fossil Fuels examines the interlinked crises of energy and agriculture and highlights some startling findings: The world-wide expansion of agriculture has appropriated fully 40% of the photosynthetic capability of this planet. The Green Revolution provided abundant food sources for many, resulting in a population explosion well in excess of the planet's carrying capacity. 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. 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. Dale Allen Pfeiffer is a novelist, freelance journalist and geologist who has been writing about energy depletion for a decade. The author of The End of the Oil Age, he is also widely known for his web project: www.survivingpeakoil.com.
Author : U S Department Of Agriculture
Release : 2017-02-08
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Book Synopsis The Role of Fossil Fuels in the U.s. Food System and the American Diet by : U S Department Of Agriculture
Download or read book The Role of Fossil Fuels in the U.s. Food System and the American Diet written by U S Department Of Agriculture. This book was released on 2017-02-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The food system accounts for a large share of fossil fuel consumption in the United States, and energy accounts for a substantial and highly variable share of food costs. This intersection between food and energy markets suggests that public and private decisions affecting one market will have spillover effects in the other. For example, would increasing the share of population having diets that align with Federal dietary guidance reduce fossil fuel use in the U.S. food system? Would a carbon dioxide (CO2) tax improve diet quality? To address these issues, we use the most recent data available to integrate the material-flows accounting framework adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission into the existing food-system accounting structure of the ERS Food Dollar accounts. Then, we use mathematical optimization to model healthy diets. Our research indicates that U.S. agri-food industries are more sensitive to energy price changes than nonfood industries. We find that in 2007, fossil fuels linked to U.S. food consumption produced 13.6 percent of all fossil fuel CO2 emissions economywide. Our study of alternative diets shows there are many ways to meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. If Americans made a minimal dietary shift to eat healthy, we find food-system energy use would decrease by 3 percent. By making greater changes from current consumption, we find foodsystem energy use could be reduced by as much as 74 percent. A tax on CO2 emissions from fossil fuels would increase the cost of a typical meal by an average of 1.7 percent, with estimates ranging between 0.2 and 5.4 percent. Keywords: Carbon emissions tax, Dietary Guidelines for Americans, energy prices, environmental input-output model, food policy, fossil fuels, food prices, greenhouse gases, healthy diet, sustainability, U.S. food system
Author : Maurice B. Green
Release : 2019-04-11
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 589/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Eating Oil: Energy Use In Food Production by : Maurice B. Green
Download or read book Eating Oil: Energy Use In Food Production written by Maurice B. Green. This book was released on 2019-04-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides facts and figures to show how fast fossil fuel energy is being used up in the developed countries. It considers the problems of feeding the population of the developing countries to whom the expedient of using fossil fuel energy to boost food production is not available.
Author : Maurice B. Green
Release : 2019-10-02
Genre : Agriculture
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Book Rating : 774/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Eating Oil by : Maurice B. Green
Download or read book Eating Oil written by Maurice B. Green. This book was released on 2019-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides facts and figures to show how fast fossil fuel energy is being used up in the developed countries. It considers the problems of feeding the population of the developing countries to whom the expedient of using fossil fuel energy to boost food production is not available.
