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Norman Pagett : Cheap Food, Our Grand Illusion
It takes oil, and lots of it, to move our food. Image from Center for a Liveable Future. Cheap food, our grand illusion We built an industrial civilization on cheap oil, but now we’ve burned it all. We only have … Continue reading
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Tagged End of More, Food Production, Fossil Fuels, Norman Pagett, Peak Oil, Scarcity, Sustainable Food
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Norman Pagett and Josephine Smit : Grain of Truth
Image from UCL. Grain of truth:Our precarious food supply Global food production has been allowed to fall into the hands of fewer and fewer megacorporations, and their aims are simple: to deliver short-term profits and ultimately to control the entire … Continue reading
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Tagged Agribusiness, Agriculture, Energy, Food Production, Fossil Fuels, Hunger, Josephine Smit, Norman Pagett, Scarcity, U.S. Imperialism, World Economy
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