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Is ‘irony’ the right word to describe current situation where we convert fossil fuels to calories in the name of Agriculture? Without fossil fuels, food production would go down drastically.

If we have to run faster to stay in the same place and burn down the world in the process because we are past carrying capacity, then I think the solution hasn’t found the right problem.

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The true irony is when we take the fossil-fueled crops and turn them back to energy with efficiency that barely breaks even, depending on your assumptions.

It’s actually worse than that when we factor in supply chains..transporting fresh produce in refrigerated trucks and keeping them in air conditioned grocery shelves after throwing out 40% of all fresh produce we grow.

All the issues in America can be solved if we had efficient network of public transport for inter and intra city movement of people and goods.

Housing, car dependency, health, green spaces, pollution..the list can maybe accommodate a few more

Or better efficient distributed local production!

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