minus-squareBastingChemina@slrpnk.nettoScience Memes@mander.xyz•That's how the world works.linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·1 month agoIt’s not just fertilizer: it takes about 7.3 units of (primarily) fossil energy to produce one unit of food energy Assessing the sustainability of the US food system: a life cycle perspective With all the fertilizer, heavy equipment and agricultural practices the food production today is very inefficient from an energy perspective. Without cheap, abundant energy available the whole food production system is not sustainable linkfedilink
It’s not just fertilizer:
Assessing the sustainability of the US food system: a life cycle perspective
With all the fertilizer, heavy equipment and agricultural practices the food production today is very inefficient from an energy perspective.
Without cheap, abundant energy available the whole food production system is not sustainable