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Overshooting ... was Malthus right? | 155 comments (155 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

if you lack arable hectarage and healthy topsoil, just add energy and...?

c'mon Starvid, you can't eat a kilowatt.

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Sat Jun 9th, 2007 at 03:50:47 PM EST
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Conceivably one could just recycle excrement and CO2, add energy, and get a nutrition pill.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Jun 9th, 2007 at 04:00:04 PM EST
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Re: Limits to growth? (none / 1)

only if you're a C19 chemical reductionist who discounts all the living components of food (enzymes, bacteria, amino acids etc). recent nutritional research is, unsurprisingly, revealing a far more complex picture than the old C19 "minimum daily allowance".

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Sat Jun 9th, 2007 at 04:20:22 PM EST
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Re: Limits to growth? (none / 0)

How about using bacteria to grow food on a petri dish?

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Jun 9th, 2007 at 04:33:15 PM EST
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Re: Limits to growth? (none / 1)

Nope, because you get a biomagnification of toxins and heavy metals every time you recycle it. If you manage to separate it in an efficient way, you have a prize to collect in Stockholm.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sun Jun 10th, 2007 at 08:03:03 AM EST
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Re: Limits to growth? (none / 0)

Obviously, if people feel like radically ruining the topsoil, there isn't much to do about that. But that is not strictly needed, even in modern farming.

And arable land will be provided by global warming. Not that more is needed as the planet can feed us all. We don't have starvation in [insert name here] because we can't produce enough food.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sun Jun 10th, 2007 at 08:00:52 AM EST
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