Micheal,
You are so right.
Looks like of all the various scenarios, economic collapse is pretty
high on the list. Doesn't matter which thing causes it though ....
food and water will become paramont. Thos who have any knowledge at all
will be called to teach, share, give. I am doing what I can to
prepare. Hope everyone else is too.
Marjory
On 7/4/2012 1:31 PM, Michael Pilarski wrote:
Several years ago I read a news report that the US had just changed from_______________________________________________
being a net exporter of agricultural products to a net importer. We now
import more value of ag imports than value of ag exports.
Now bearing in mind that currencies are manipulated and that the
currencies of exporting countries in Africa, South America, etc are kept
low in comparison to dollars and euros, that the situation is probably
worse than officially stated.
Bearing in mind that in the event of a dollar collapse there would be a
lot less oil, food and other imports coming into the US.
Bearing in mind that when the Soviet Union collapsed that their
industrial food production dropped 80% and that home gardens had to pick
up the slack.
We should have plans laid for what to do in such an eventuality. Some
years back I proposed that in such a crisis that all permaculturists
should undertake train the trainers programs in their neighborhood to
vastly increase local food production using local resources and
permaculture (and regular gardening) techniques.
Michael Pilarski
--- On Wed, 7/4/12, Marjory<forestgarden@gvtc.com> wrote:
From: Marjory<forestgarden@gvtc.com>
Subject: [permaculture] The US is no longer food self-reliant?
To: "permaculture"<permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Wednesday, July 4, 2012, 10:40 AM
Hi Everyone,
I just had this grim realization.
This blows up that 'Bread Basket To The World" story.
With very few exceptions, every bite of every American meal comes from
big Ag. And big Ag just coulndn't produce without massive amounts of
oil and natrual gas.
From Wikipedia, the US imports about 65% of the oil it uses.
So could the US produce enough food to feed it's population without
imported oil? It doesn't look likely.
I know each of us is all about change towards local sustainability, but
as it stands /today/, the US is *not food self-reliant.*
Is there some problem with the logic here?
The US does export about 15%-20% of the biggest crop it produces -
corn. But we also import a lot of other food stuffs (fruits and
vegetables) The US is not really a big net exporter.
Am I missing something here...
Marjory
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