Empty plates tomorrow

A WELSH economist has given an apocalyptic warning that Wales and the rich West face a potentially catastrophic famine, as energy reserves run out.

Dr Patricia Dodd Racher, who lives in Porthyrhyd, Carmarthenshire, says that a


For a year she studied key environmental pointers and the big players in food production, including the oil, transport and agro chemical/seed industries for her book, Empty Plates Tomorrow.

She found that oil production probably peaked between 2002 and 2004, way before the predicted 2010. And the growing of bio-fuels is helping put up the cost of farmland and making food crops more expensive.

Western Mail