Cole and I have started making a habit of working together for long stints of time. This is because we found we both get significantly more work done when in the presence of another jerk who is working.
I'm reading a book for college about the production of food in America. It's called The Omnivore's Dilemma. It horrifies me. Here are some excerpts;
"It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produce a calorie of food; before the advent of chemical fertilizer the Naylor farm produced more than two calories of food energy for every calorie of energy invested."
"They say you only need a hundred pounds per acre. I don't know. I'm putting on closer to one hundred eighty."
"Some of it evaporates into the air, where it acidifies the rain and contributes to global warming... Some seeps down to the water table... The spring rains wash [some] off Naylor's fields, carrying it into drainage ditches that eventually spill into the Raccoon River."
"We have perturbed the global nitrogen cycle, more than any other, even carbon."
"Unless you grew up on organic food, most of the kilo or so of nitrogen in your body was fixed by the Haber-Bosch process."
I would like to take a moment to say, thank you so very much, to my mother.
I'm reading a book for college about the production of food in America. It's called The Omnivore's Dilemma. It horrifies me. Here are some excerpts;
"It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produce a calorie of food; before the advent of chemical fertilizer the Naylor farm produced more than two calories of food energy for every calorie of energy invested."
"They say you only need a hundred pounds per acre. I don't know. I'm putting on closer to one hundred eighty."
"Some of it evaporates into the air, where it acidifies the rain and contributes to global warming... Some seeps down to the water table... The spring rains wash [some] off Naylor's fields, carrying it into drainage ditches that eventually spill into the Raccoon River."
"We have perturbed the global nitrogen cycle, more than any other, even carbon."
"Unless you grew up on organic food, most of the kilo or so of nitrogen in your body was fixed by the Haber-Bosch process."
I would like to take a moment to say, thank you so very much, to my mother.
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