About 15 years ago I read how petroleum/mechanization was responsible for a 3 fold increase in the carrying capacity of the earth. As I studied further, I realized that the 9 to 11 billion people that were were being told was the carrying capacity was an illusion, and that in reality once the oil was gone we were already beyond the sustainable carrying capacity.
The article that
@WVDragonlady posted would show how the push for a GREEN World may result in a lot less food for the people: I pulled the following from the article she posted:
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All the “Green New Deal” lunatics have literally zero knowledge of physics, chemistry, agriculture, geophysics, atmospheric chemistry, and so on, which is why they are trying to destroy carbon dioxide, the single most important nutrient in phyotosynthesis that grows food crops. Given current technology, it is patently impossible to produce affordable ammonia without using fossil fuels, period. Affordable food comes from affordable energy, and when energy is no longer affordable, food simply cannot be produced in an affordable manner. That’s straight up cause and effect. (The whole world is about to learn this lesson in 2022, it turns out…)
The fertilizer shortage is already so bad that in some areas, farmers can’t even order fertility for their 2022 crops:
Hermann Greif, a farmer from the village of Pinzberg in the southern state of Bavaria, told AP that he was shocked when he discovered that he could not even order fertilizer for next year. “There is no product, no price, not even a contract. It is a situation we have never seen before,” said Greif. “If I do not give my crops the nutrition they need, the yield will be much lower. It’s that simple.”
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I guess those of us who garden should make sure we have all our supplies in early, because they are going to be the next shortages we are seeing.....
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