文档介绍：Advance praise for
Eating Fossil Fuels
People eat — and this book explains in the most lucid way what
they eat: namely the product of energy-intensive agriculture. It
finds that the Green Revolution, hailed as a breakthrough by
which to feed an exploding population, actually degrades the
ecosystem, making us ever more dependent on energy inputs
from oil and gas. But oil and gas are set to deplete to near exhaus•
tion this century. The challenges are great, but there are solutions.
This book is key reading for those wanting to be counted amongst
the survivors.
— C. J. Campbell, Chairman, The Association for the Study of
Peak Oil (ASPO)
In retrospect, the industrialization of agriculture was one of
the greatest blunders in the history of our species; as Dale Allen
Pfeiffer shows, it is a mistake that can be undone — and, given the
imminent peak in global oil production, must be undone as soon
as possible. The world's addiction to oil is as personal and prosaic
as what's on your dinner plate and how it got there. This is a book
of enormous importance.
— Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over, Powerdown, and
The Oil Depletion Protocol
Eating Fossil Fuels is a wake-up call for humanity. It traces how,
with industrialization and globalization, we have stopped eating
real food and have started to eat oil, increasing the fossil fuel con•
tent of the food chain and threatening the environment, our
health and our future. Pfeiffer shows how creating fossil fuel-free
ecological and localized food systems has e a central chal•
lenge for sustainability, and how you can help make this shift.
— Dr. Vandana Shiva, author of Earth Democracy: Justice, Sus•
tainability, and Peace and Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the
Global Food Supply
FOSSIL FUELS
OIL, FOOD AND ING CRISIS IN AGRICULTURE
Dale Allen Pfeiffer
New Society Publishers
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