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Greeley Miklashek, MD's avatar

"As humans go, so goes all life on earth". Yes, but in an inverse proportion. Our industrial agricultural system is totally dependent on our diminishing supplies of fossil fuels and in a death spiral within the natural world. Too many humans (3,000 times more than our Hunter-Gatherer ancestral clans/bands) are using/depleting too many natural resources and producing too much pollution, including GHGs and global heating, as well as biome depletion in general. TOO MANY HUMANS.

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Kevin Hester's avatar

It makes ''common sense," not that that's very common anymore, that there is a link between Peak Oil and Peak Food when most of the food in the West is grown on industrial scales, with industrial machinery used for harvesting and transportation to markets.

A few brief additional points I'll make, are that increased levels of CO2 reduce the nutritional value of crops, inclement weather throughout the growing seasons and at harvest time, impact quantity and quality of the crops harvested and as the level of CO2 increases in the atmosphere our cognitive abilities decline.

As is always the case, the poorer people in our communities, with the lowest disposable incomes, will be able to buy less and less food, that contains less and less nutritional value.

Climate change is also clearly a class war issue; it's initially a war against the poor and as I have said before no one, neither flora nor fauna survives war uninjured.

Carbon dioxide can impact human cognitive performance

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2018/dec/carbon-dioxide-can-impact-human-cognitive-performance

Bigger crops, fewer nutrients: The hidden cost of climate change

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250709091658.htm

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