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More copies of this ISBN:Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agricultureby Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 United States 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:
Concluding that the effect of energy depletion will be disastrous without a transition to a sustainable, re-localized 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. Book News Annotation:For every calorie in those corn flakes you ate this morning, if that
indeed is your habit and preference, the planet expended ten calories
of hydrocarbon energy. Feel guilty yet? Without fossil fuels
artificial fertilizer, pesticides and energy to irrigate the US can
sustain only about two thirds of its present population. Feel alarmed
yet? Independent journalist and geologist Pfeiffer analyzes the
experiences of Cuba and North Korea with agriculture not based on
hydrocarbon resources. He details the degradation of land and water,
the hidden costs of current food production, the inevitable collapse
of hydrocarbon-based agriculture, the efforts to create sustainable
systems by Cuba and North Korea, and activities people can do now to
change the system and their dependence upon it. Pfeiffer concludes by
encouraging strong grassroots support of localized, sustainable
agriculture and reduction of the population.
Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) About the AuthorDale Allen Pfeiffer is a novelist, freelance journalist and geologist who ha What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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