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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 6 November | 174 comments (174 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Living Off the Planet (none / 0)

No. If you want "strategic" you also need to have all the crucial support industries domestically. Fertilizer, pesticides, farming machinery, oil&gas... No use.

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

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Fri Nov 6th, 2009 at 12:39:55 PM EST
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Re: Living Off the Planet (none / 0)

Eating is the one thing you need to do no matter what.

And, in Scandinavia, heating yourself.

The rest of out way of life is negotiable :)

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Nov 6th, 2009 at 12:50:56 PM EST
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Re: Living Off the Planet (none / 0)

Europe doesn't have support industries? The other regions of the world where you want to see plantations set up to provide you with cheap food already have support industries?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Nov 6th, 2009 at 12:53:11 PM EST
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Re: Living Off the Planet (none / 0)

Who said anything about Europe? If you want domestic security of supply, you're talking about just your own country. Then a much better idea is to prestore a few years supply of freeze-dried food which one can live off until domestic farming is recreated. That's much cheaper than constant agribusiness subsidies.

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

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Fri Nov 6th, 2009 at 03:08:14 PM EST
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Re: Living Off the Planet (none / 1)

I do believe you've passed into self-parody here, on several levels.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Nov 6th, 2009 at 04:14:17 PM EST
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Re: Living Off the Planet (none / 1)

How so? We did have those amounts of freeze-dried food stored in caves during the cold war. Which, given a bit of thought, is something of a parody. But then so are all worries over food security of supply.

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

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Fri Nov 6th, 2009 at 04:45:05 PM EST
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