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Doomberg: Energy is Life and We Are Killing It

From the New World

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What Is Happening With Food Around the World?

"We will not be producing enough food and nor will we be able to distribute equitably," says Peter Bergen. "The skyrocketing cost of energy is causing the cost of all of those things to explode, which is causing less sophisticated farmers in the developing world to be unable to afford fertilizer or herbicides", he adds. 'This is a rare time in the long arc of human history that we didn't literally live and die by the quality of the harvest'

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