Today, food is extensively dependent on fossil carbon; the stylized fact puts it at ten to one by mass. Every tonne of food required ten tonnes of fossil carbon as fertilizer and pesticide feedstock, in shipping the fertilizers, in powering the tractor, in making the tractor tyres, in shipping the food, and so on. (Don't neglect food processing! A bag of raw wheat kernels isn't all that much
Published on June 25, 2022 12:08