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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ColonelBlimp" data-source="post: 1414700" data-attributes="member: 63179">If we're talking about food production in the context of waste the wasteful packaging you mention actually necessitates less food being grown as it will reduce waste from spoilage, even though requiring lots of fossil fuels. Sadly as I see it there is simply no way that in the event of a serious oil shock we can feed even half of the people in the UK. And in nature when the carrying capacity of the land goes down, the population is brought down too, i.e. by Malthusian catastrophe. Not something I'm looking forward to!</blockquote>