Title: Eating Fossil Fuels
Description: The miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. Estimates of the net energy balance of agriculture in the United States show that ten calories of hydrocarbon energy are required to produce one calorie of food. Such an imbalance cannot continue in a world of diminishing hydrocarbon resources. Eating Fossil Fuels examines the interlinked crises of energy and agriculture and highlights some startling findings.
Subjects: Nonfiction, Science, Sustainable agriculture, Combustibles fossiles, Petroleum industry and trade, Food supply, Prévision, Aliments, Pétrole, History, Forecasting, Politique agricole, Food industry and trade, Agriculture and state, Histoire, Agriculture and energy, Industrie et commerce, Agriculture durable, Approvisionnement, Fossil fuels, Agriculture, Agriculture et énergie