Budiansky and local food | The Rational Optimist

Matt Ridley

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:25:18 GM

The real energy hog, it turns out, is not . industrial. agriculture at all, but you and me. Home preparation and storage account for 32 percent of all energy use in our food system, the largest component by far. . ... That people trade their labor for . goods and services. has been happening for several, several millenniums. It's a process that allows us to have what we humans want. Our species has moved from being hunter-gatherer​s needing lots of land, to being specialists ...