??? 07/23/06 18:57 Read: times |
#120885 - RE "doom and gloom" Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Richard Erlacher
I've long been a follower of the "doom and gloom" school of economics. The mean price of food has gone up by over 10% around here in the past year because so little food is produced locally that everything is trucked in from elsewhere "doom and gloom" I think the future will be quite scary...and it will not be long before it unravels before our very eyes.... Oil has come ...has peaked....and in the next forty years will be gone.And food is oil!.. The "Ecology Institute" in Willets,California has calculated that by the year 2050 there will be 7.5 billion of us requiring 2800 ish acres of land for agriculture each to provide food. This is quite doable as long as we all become strict vegans and utilise composting of all human waste and post mortem humans...I hope you read the last bit there.. In the fortys US farms produced 2000 calories of food for every 1 calorie of fossil fuel used...by 1970 this became 1:1....and is now 1:2000 R U Hungry.....Soylent Green Anyone.... Rob |