Comments on: Fuelling a Food Crisis – new report on Peak Oil and food from Caroline Lucas. http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/09/fuelling-a-food-crisis-new-report-on-peak-oil-and-food-from-caroline-lucas/ An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:35:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jim in Alabama http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/09/fuelling-a-food-crisis-new-report-on-peak-oil-and-food-from-caroline-lucas/comment-page-1/#comment-12008 Jim in Alabama Sat, 13 Jan 2007 06:07:39 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/09/fuelling-a-food-crisis-new-report-on-peak-oil-and-food-from-caroline-lucas/#comment-12008 <p>"The report warns that we must change energy, trade and agriculture policies at an EU level if we are to avoid a food crisis precipitated by ‘Peak Oil'."</p> <p>You folks might want to rethink your immigration policies while you're at it. Allowing millions of new immigrants to flood into the UK is purely insane. Each new immigrant needs food, water, electricity, gasoline, living space, sewage service, garbage collection, etc. Seems like your politicians, and mine, have forgotten the old "ounce of prevention" saying.</p> “The report warns that we must change energy, trade and agriculture policies at an EU level if we are to avoid a food crisis precipitated by ‘Peak Oil’.”

You folks might want to rethink your immigration policies while you’re at it. Allowing millions of new immigrants to flood into the UK is purely insane. Each new immigrant needs food, water, electricity, gasoline, living space, sewage service, garbage collection, etc. Seems like your politicians, and mine, have forgotten the old “ounce of prevention” saying.

]]> By: Peter Cameron http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/09/fuelling-a-food-crisis-new-report-on-peak-oil-and-food-from-caroline-lucas/comment-page-1/#comment-11347 Peter Cameron Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:31:36 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/09/fuelling-a-food-crisis-new-report-on-peak-oil-and-food-from-caroline-lucas/#comment-11347 <p>Living in Scotland, where local water is plentiful, one observes the insanity of trucks transporting plastic bottled water here from all over . . .then there is our daily loaf. 30 years ago we had local bakeries. Now trucks cover a 300 mile round trip from Glasgow just to bring us a slice of bread. Point is can you sort this without getting rid of capitalism? I think not.</p> <p>PC</p> Living in Scotland, where local water is plentiful, one observes the insanity of trucks transporting plastic bottled water here from all over . . .then there is our daily loaf. 30 years ago we had local bakeries. Now trucks cover a 300 mile round trip from Glasgow just to bring us a slice of bread.
Point is can you sort this without getting rid of capitalism? I think not.

PC

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