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When we run out of oil and natural gas, or at least start having substantial shocks to the supply lines, it will be an absolute Armageddon! Just in time grocer
by euroclydon 8y ago
When we run out of oil and natural gas, or at least start having substantial shocks to the supply lines, it will be an absolute Armageddon!
Just in time grocery store inventories and trucks with empty fuel tanks will starve as many people as Haberless crops.
Humanity is much more likely to suffer a huge calamity from lack of fossil fuels than it is to overcome the problem with technology.
- baybal2 8y agoBack during cold war, it was said that US fall into famine if the four biggest fertiliser stockpiles were to be struck/sabotaged/nuked and US will be unable to import food from abroad. Sounds ridiculous now, but at in 60-70ies (and to lesser extend today,) US had high double digits of world's total agricultural output