One Planet Agriculture #2: Peak Oil and Agriculture
First Broadcast: 10 April 2007
Featuring:
- Richard Heinberg
RICHARD HEINBERG - THE IMPACTS OF PEAK OIL ON AGRICULTURE
Climate Radio presents the second in a series of four talks recorded earlier
this year at the Soil Association annual conference. Author Richard Heinberg
talks us through the challenges that peak oil poses to the way we produce
our food today. Much of our 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. Should we be
relocalising food production and using more traditional methods of
small-scale, labour intensive, mixed farming? Is this the most sensible
response to the multiple challenges - of peak oil, climate change and an
expanding population - that we now face?
For further info see:
http://www.soilassociation.org/oneplanetagriculture
Richard Heinberg's site:
http://www.richardheinberg.com/
Available Audio
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