Food, Climate Change and the Coming Energy Crises

…Across the water, the easy complacency which surrounds the supplyof food was severely tested in September of 2000 when after just a few days of a nation-wide truckers


Food and Fossil Fuels When people think of energy shortages and the effects of rising energy costs, they tend to think of possible blackouts, or rising prices at the petrol pumps. Much more fundamental than these consequences, however, will be the effect on our food supply, not simply because of possible interruptions in transport, but because, since the 1950s, food is fossil energy: