{"id":9233,"date":"2015-06-19T06:16:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T11:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9233"},"modified":"2015-06-19T06:16:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T11:16:44","slug":"plenty-of-trouble-feeding-a-climate-changed-world-after-peak-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9233","title":{"rendered":"Plenty of trouble: Feeding a climate changed world after peak oil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plenty of trouble: Feeding a climate changed world after peak oil<\/a> <\/span><\/h3>\n

Nothing is more precious than balance, stability, and sustainability.\u00a0Today, we\u2019re hanging by our fingernails to a skyrocket of intense insane change, and it\u2019s the only way of life we\u2019ve ever known.\u00a0 Joel Bourne has spent his life riding the rocket.\u00a0 He grew up on a farm, and studied agronomy at college. But sharp changes were causing many farmers to go bankrupt\u00a0and taking over the family farm would have been extremely risky, so he became a writer for farm magazines.\u00a0 Later, he was hired by National Geographic, where he has spent most of his career.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2008, he was assigned to cover the global food crisis, and this project hurled him into full awareness of the big picture.\u00a0 The Green Revolution caused food production to skyrocket, and world population doubled in just 40 years.\u00a0 Then, the revolution fizzled out, whilst population continued to soar.\u00a0 Demographers have told us to expect another two or three billion for dinner in 2050.\u00a0 Obviously, this had the makings of an excellent book, so Bourne sat down and wrote\u00a0The End of Plenty<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

The subtitle of his book is \u201cThe Race to Feed a Crowded World,\u201d not \u201cThe Race to Tackle Overpopulation.\u201d\u00a0 A growing population thrills the greed community, and a diminishing herd does not.\u00a0Overpopulation is a problem that can be solved, and will be, either by enlightened self-restraint, by compulsory restraint, or, most likely, by the vigorous housekeeping of Big Mama Nature.\u00a0 Feeding the current population is thrashing the planet, and feeding even more will worsen everything, but this is our primary objective.\u00a0 We are, after all, civilized people, and enlightened self-restraint is for primitive savages who live sustainably in roadless paradises.<\/p>\n

– See more at: http:\/\/transitionvoice.com\/2015\/06\/plenty-of-trouble-feeding-a-climate-changed-world-after-peak-oil\/#sthash.8vamboU4.dpuf<\/span><\/p>\n

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Plenty of trouble: Feeding a climate changed world after peak oil Nothing is more precious than balance, stability, and sustainability.\u00a0Today, we\u2019re hanging by our fingernails to a skyrocket of intense insane change, and it\u2019s the only way of life we\u2019ve ever known.\u00a0 Joel Bourne has spent his life riding the rocket.\u00a0 He grew up on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6502,141,319,1370,6503,606,617,5545,769,6504,5970],"class_list":["post-9233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-balance","tag-climate-change","tag-food","tag-green-revolution","tag-joel-bourne","tag-overpopulation","tag-peak-oil","tag-stability","tag-sustainability","tag-the-end-of-plenty","tag-transition-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9234,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions\/9234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}