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To: Neocon who wrote (361744)	2/20/2003 2:09:39 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Low tech agriculture uses a lot less energy per unit of food produced (manure and biomass instead of commercial - petroleum derived - fertilizers... and cheap labor instead of oil-gulping combines). Our intensive form of agriculture is more 'efficient' only because the oil is cheap. Of course, even when oil rises in cost, if we can replace it with fuel cells and a hydrogen economy we will still be far more productive than the low-techs. Bio-tech agriculture is the one form of modern advance which plays well in either type of farm economy... not being dependent on cheap oil... replacing chemical fertilizers with plants that can fix their own nitrogen, etc. It can benefit both the high-tech and the low-tech farm economies.