The Guardian on human population

“And what that allows us to do is grow food, because our crop production is oil-powered; we rely hugely on fossil fuel to grow food, over huge areas of the world. The reason you and I can sit here having a lively intelligent conversation without having to worry where our lunch is going to come from is because modern farming uses fossil fuel to increase hugely the efficiency with which an individual farmer can produce food for thousands of people”

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