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To claim that modern food production is sustainable when it is extremely dependent on cheap energy from oil seems quite a stretch stretch to me. It may work at the present oil prices but how many times can oil prices double until current practices stop working?

Note that I don't believe this will be food induced Armageddon. Rather, I expect a retooling just as big as the green revolution towards energy efficiency and energy output (as opposed to the great input that happens currently).




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