Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture

Dale Allen Pfeiffer
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  • This is one of the best books I've read in the last several years on the theme of peak oil. It's an easy read, a fast read, and meticulously researched. What this jaded reader found most informative and startling were the descriptions of the recent...
     
  • I wish I had read this book last year, I would already have prepared a vegetable garden to plant this spring. I know about Peak Oil, etc. but this book really got my attention. It provides a clear explanation of how dependent our food supply is on fossil...
     
  • This book is a must read for everyone. It carries an important and sonewhat frightening message.
     
  • As a farmer, albeit part time, I am concerned about rising fuel prices, and other costs of production, nearly all energy related. In this book author Dale Allen Pfeiffer reviews possible consequences of the coming worldwide peaking of the production of...
     
  • "Eating Fossil Fuels," by David Allen Pfeiffer, is a fascinating review of the upcoming crisis in production of food for our population. He starts with a quick discussion of land degradation and water degradation, and then goes into the data behind the...
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