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On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts

Fifty Million Farmers

From: Peak Everything

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There are reasons to think that our current anomalous abundance of inexpensive food may be only temporary; if so, present and future generations may become acquainted with that old, formerly familiar but unwelcome houseguest — famine. The following are the four principal bases (there are others) for this gloomy forecast. The first factor has to with looming fuel shortages. The second factor potentially leading to famine is a shortage of farmers. The third worrisome trend is an increasing scarcity of fresh water. Fourth and finally, there is the problem of global Climate Change.

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Richard Heinberg

Richard Heinberg is the author of eleven previous books including The Party's Over, Powerdown, Peak Everything, and The End of Growth. He is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world's most effective communicators of the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels. Heinberg has given hundreds of lectures on our energy future to audiences around the world. He has been published in Nature and other journals, and has been featured in many television and theatrical documentaries.