[ROCKMAN]

"...and can overall world continue roughly at the same output?" The US is a major food exporter. And what country is a major supplier of wheat to the EU? The Ukraine. And of the top 9 wheat exporting countries 7 are oil importers. And we all know how modern commercial agriculture is heavily dependent upon fossil fuels. As goes the fossil fuels so goes agricultural exports.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ROCKMAN', '&')quot;...and can overall world continue roughly at the same output?" The US is a major food exporter. And what country is a major supplier of wheat to the EU? The Ukraine. And of the top 9 wheat exporting countries 7 are oil importers. And we all know how modern commercial agriculture is heavily dependent upon fossil fuels. As goes the fossil fuels so goes agricultural exports.

[ROCKMAN]

T - And could work the same for the world's biggest wheat exporter...the USA. Our farmers can't plant that surplus without enough oil imports. So who eventually gets a country's oil exports: the folks that feed your citizens or one that competes with them for that exported food?

[isgota]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '&')quot;Morocco has about 400 years worth of phosphate at current rates, there is no immediate concern there."

Not if you apply Hubbert's calculus to the reserves.

or this, the so-called linearization:

It's the same issue with peak oil. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but the shortage is baked into the pie, and with a burgeoning population and depletions among other phosphorus reserves, this issue does suggest serious consideration . . . perhaps screaming yikes! would be appropriate lol