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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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Guy R McPherson's avatar

As Voltaire wrote many years ago, “common sense is not so common.” Thank you for evidence via supporting links! Thank you, too, for your ongoing support of my work.

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Guy R McPherson's avatar

Yes, there are too many humans burning fossil fuels and otherwise destroying habitat for all species on Earth. However, the fastest path to extinction of all life on this planet is to stop or slow that burning of fossil fuels. Doing so will invoke the aerosol masking effect, thereby super-heating Earth. This is why I chose to have no children when I was 19 years old.

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