“The American food system rests on an unstable foundation of massive fossil fuel inputs. It must be reinvented in the face of declining fuel stocks.”
— Richard Heinberg and Michael Bomford, ‘The Food and Farming Transition‘
Check out this article which I think says it all. Food. Food. Food. How do we get it? How do we grow it? Who suffers in the interim? Who reinvents the agricultural system? Here are some very salient points.