Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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I agree but those figures do average in pastured beef & all kinds of 
agriculture. Also I have no respect for the way "permaculture" has been 
bastardized in the U.S.

On 9/15/2014 6:28 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
> "beef makes up 4 percent by weight of available food, but 36 percent of
> emissions"
>
> CAFO beef probably but I severely doubt that gras grazing beef is 
> worse weight for weight than humans.
>
> "Direct emissions from agriculture make up between 10 percent and 12
> percent of overall greenhouse gas emissions. If you throw in factors
> such as fertilizer and chemical production, fuel use and agricultural
> land-use change, the proportion rises—along with the uncertainty—to
> between 17 percent and 32 percent.
>
> that is regular industrial agriculture and not organic-permaculture!
>
>
> "Researchers may enhance yields and farmers may use resources more
> efficiently, but populations will increase—and so will demand for meat
> and dairy products."
>
> The human population exploded thanks to oil. Oil production and human 
> population graphs follow one another very closely.
> Past peak oil...we can only keep people fed by trashing the planet for 
> short term gain. I can see a breaking point in the not too far distant 
> future and then populations will crash and so will demand. Just 
> extrapolating graph lines is oxymoronic.
>
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