Apr 9, 2021
The situation is worse: Hall & Klitgaard explain that energy-wise US food comes with a 1:10 ratio. So 9 units wasted to get 1 unit of food energy on your table. Jeffrey Dukes explains that we are burning fossil fuels at a rate of 400x the rate of natural replenishment.
The rest is simple maths. We will run out of oil...the only question is when. Nuclear can't replace the oil used to make fertilizers...so now you know the real reason Mr Gates is buying up land.
