Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Grain Drain: Get Ready for Peak Grain
This is not a surprising development. As we continue to expand our population, the resources that we depend on just don't seem to keep pace. We have not found a way to create resources yet. All we have mastered is the consumption of them. They are finite and it seems there is no way we can avoid using them up. Indubitably, when one is gone we will start using up the next one. The trouble with growing food for fuel is that it depends, to a huge degree, on the fuel that we are trying to replace with bio-fuels. That is a double whammy. As the fuel runs out it will also become harder to produce bio-products to replace them because there isn't enough fuel....ad infinitum. Someday we will have to face the facts. There isn't going to be enough to go around. We will have to adjust our numbers or adjust our consumption or have it done to us. There are no other "long term" options. [Link: Grain Drain: Get Ready for Peak Grain]
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Thanks for pointing out the contracting circle of food and energy production. This really will become a huge problem, and no one seems to be the least bit aware of it.
For decades, the 80s and 90s anyway, there was a global commodity bear market. Because it was always possible to expand production somewhere, there was the illusion that the globe is not a closed system. But that seems to be changing very fast. Our earth, and its ability to feed and house people safely, suddenly does not look unlimited anymore.
Now that we are using petro fuel to produce food to produce bio fuel the process is getting so complex that when it begins to collapse we won't even see it coming.
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