| Food
and Energy |
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| Triad Nitrogen, Donaldsonville LA |
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| Closing
in 2004 |
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| • | Industrial
fertilizer plants use natural gas. |
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| • | Tractors,
pesticides, water pumps, food processing, |
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| transportation,
food storage—all rely on fossil fuels. |
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| • | The “Green
Revolution” is based on unsustainable farming |
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| practices. |
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| “Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert |
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| petroleum
into food.” Albert Bartlett |
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