TY - BOOK AU - Pfeiffer,Dale Allen TI - Eating fossil fuels: oil, food and the coming crisis in agriculture SN - 9780865715653 (pbk.) : U1 - 338.1 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Philadelphia, Pa., Lancaster PB - New Society, Gazelle Drake Academic [distributor] KW - Sustainable agriculture KW - Hydrocarbon-producing plants KW - Fossil fuels KW - Environmental aspects N1 - Includes bibliography (p. 99-102) and index; Food = energy + nutrients - Land degradation - Water degradation - Eating fossil fuels - The end of the oil age - The collapse of agriculture - The next 'green revolution' - Building a sustainable agriculture - Twelve fun activities for activists N2 - The author tells us that every calorie of food produced in the US requires ten calories of hydrocarbons. Without oil, the US can only sustain two thirds of its population. The author argues that the solution is transition to a sustainable, localised agriculture ER -