http://civileats.com/2009/03/04/what-next-a-peak-oiler-gives-some-perspective/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:45:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://civileats.com/2009/03/04/what-next-a-peak-oiler-gives-some-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-2432 Paul Kobulnicky Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:48:23 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=2489#comment-2432 I think that the problems in world agriculture are even a bit worse than we think. As a matter of fact, I think that we are in a period in agriculture that is very similar to the financial markets. We are highly and over leveraged. We are producing food, and other agricultural products, by leveraging production with petroleum, with irreplaceable water reserves and with irreplaceable soils lost to erosion and salt/toxic chemical pollution. Food is cheaper than it must be to be sustainable and we are trying to feed a population that is not sustainable. We even think that we can extend current agricultural practices to product fuels. This system will crash soon (likely to start with the failure of the California Central Valley) and we will wonder what happened. "No one saw this coming" the pundit will say. I think that the problems in world agriculture are even a bit worse than we think. As a matter of fact, I think that we are in a period in agriculture that is very similar to the financial markets. We are highly and over leveraged. We are producing food, and other agricultural products, by leveraging production with petroleum, with irreplaceable water reserves and with irreplaceable soils lost to erosion and salt/toxic chemical pollution. Food is cheaper than it must be to be sustainable and we are trying to feed a population that is not sustainable. We even think that we can extend current agricultural practices to product fuels. This system will crash soon (likely to start with the failure of the California Central Valley) and we will wonder what happened. “No one saw this coming” the pundit will say.

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