One Planet Agriculture #1: Energy Shortages
First Broadcast: 3 April 2007
Featuring:
- Dr Colin Campbell
Climate Radio presents a series of four talks recorded earlier this year at
the Soil Association annual conference, which was devoted to the challenge
that peak oil poses to food security.
Much of today’s agriculture relies on fossil fuel intensive inputs such as
nitrous fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides as well as the transportation
of food huge distances around the globe. The logic and stability of this way
of producing our food is seriously brought into question by the likelihood
of rising oil prices and the urgent need to cut our emissions of greenhouse
gases. A relocalisation of food production that uses more traditional
methods of small-scale, mixed farming is one possible response to the
multiple challenges - of peak oil, climate change and an expanding
population - that we now face.
This first presentation is from Colin Campbell founder of the Association
for the Study of Peak Oil who gives a potted overview of the energy
depletion issue.
Many thanks to the Soil Association for giving their kind permission to
broadcast this material.
View the slideshow of Colin's presentation at:
http://www.soilassociation.org/Web/SA/saweb.nsf/cfff6730b881e40e80256a6a002a765c/902f12def991d13a80256f9c005e300e/$FILE/conference_campbell.pps
And read a transcript of the talk at:
http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/(UNID)/B5A0985EA710EABC8025726F007013BB?OpenDocument
Available Audio
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