Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Tommy Tolson <healinghawk@earthlink.net>]

Does this study remain valid when/if Peak Oil, climate change, and 
economic collapse are factored into its assumptions?  Meat and dairy 
have a lot more of a carbon footprint than vegetables, especially from 
established beds, unless we're talking about homestead chickens/rabbits, 
etc.

What the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is teaching us, too late, is 
that there is not a way to safely produce deepwater oil with current 
technology.  BP spends $1 billion/month cleaning up and trying to plug 
the well they let get away from them.  Ocean-going ships are no longer 
able to access Mississippi River grain export facilities.  After this 
thing ripples through Gulf state economies, the tens of millions of 
refugees will make the Katrina diaspora look insignificant.  Richard 
Heinberg today on Energy Bulletin.net says BP's mess may take down the 
US (and harm the British) economy 
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/53168.  Over time, Richard has been 
near 100% correct in his predictions.

The only reason BP's drilling in mile (or more) deep water is because 
the easily gotten commercially viable shallow water and land deposits 
are gone, meaning cheap oil is gone, which is what Peak Oil always 
meant.  When oil goes over $80/barrel, the US economy staggers, and 
Michael Ruppert says we'll have $200/barrel by the end of this summer 
because BP is deepwater drilling's Three Mile Island.  Ruppert says he's 
right 80% of the time.

What this seems to indicate, to me, is that we will be eating whatever 
the immediate twenty miles or so produces, and a significant portion of 
that will be what we can produce ourselves.  Keeping our diets healthy 
may become a challenge.

It seems certain, however, that we will not have the access to meat and 
dairy that this study assumes.

Smiles.
Tommy

On 6/20/10 1:47 PM, pbunch@cox.net wrote:
> This Cornell study indicates that largely vegetarian diets with small amounts 
> of meat and dairy products may provide more effective land use than vegan 
> diets.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/332pxro
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