Gene, all that global food is being moved about with oil. In fact almost all
of it is being grown with oil (and natural gas).
I have more citrus than I will consume before it rots. How shall we
solve the 2,000-mile transport energy issue?
Already I'm monitoring the
stories of food panic in remote places . . . .
Homesteading barely
works for a very small number. It is impossible on a national scale.
It works for us small in number because of our very modest lifestyles. It
would make a very good discussion on this list to examine the notion that it is
impossible on a national scale.
But agribusiness as we know it will come to
an end with the end of cheap fossil fuel. If indeed homesteading, or something
very like it, is impossible, then that is the same thing as saying that
living will be impossible as well.
Take a deep breath and inspect your computer for country of manufacture.
That's an often used red herring. That is, if we were all localists or
regionalists, where would we get computers from?
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