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	<description>Famine in the West by 2025?</description>
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		<title>Why Modern Farming is Unsustainable</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2010/02/why-modern-farming-is-unsustainable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[security of energy supply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon dioxide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diesel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fossil fuel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The farmer’s job is to manage the original solar energy collector-the plant leaf.   We use the sun’s energy collected by plants to take the carbon from carbon dioxide and the hydrogen from water to synthesise carbohydrates and give off oxygen. When the carbohydrate is eaten, burned or it just decays, the opposite happens- oxygen is required, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America the Vulnerable</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2009/01/america-the-vulnerable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States is a land with bountiful resources of all kinds of minerals, oil and gas reserves, agricultural land and best of all, a well educated, innovative and hard working people. In addition, it has the most powerful armed forces the world has ever seen. But, in my opinion, it is in a worse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil hits $100 per Barrel</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2008/01/oil-hits-100-per-barrel/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2008/01/oil-hits-100-per-barrel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday (2/ 1/2008) West Texas intermediate crude hit $100 per barrel before ending the session at $99.62. This is the first time in history that such a price was reached and was partly due to political events in various parts of the world.

It does show how close supply and demand are balanced and although there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elephant Grass for Fuel</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2007/11/elephant-grass-for-fuel/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2007/11/elephant-grass-for-fuel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[security of energy supply]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As we try to move away from the use of fossil fuels, elephant grass (miscanthus) is a perennial grass that should be a useful plant for the efficient collection of solar energy.  It can produce very high yields of dry matter without heavy use of fertiliser or pesticides, so the energy balance is good. At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the U.S. invade Iran?</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2007/08/will-the-us-invade-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2007/08/will-the-us-invade-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[security of energy supply]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been mounting speculation that the U.S Vice President has been urging an invasion of Iraq before it can join the nuclear club. Such an invasion would be highly unpopular throughout the world but it is worth remembering what is at stake.

A nuclear armed Iran would be destabilising, dangerous and unpredictable. The world has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middle East Turmoil could hit Food Supples</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2007/07/middle-east-turmoil-could-hit-food-supples/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2007/07/middle-east-turmoil-could-hit-food-supples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[security of energy supply]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Extreme Islamic fundamentalists are now at war with the West in general and the USA in particular. This is acknowledged by Western and Islamic leaders alike. Unfortunately, Muslims are also almost at war with each other. Civil war between Sunni and Shi’ites is a distinct possibility. Mid East conflict is possibly a more immediate threat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troops stay in Iraq because of Oil</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2007/07/troops-stay-in-iraq-because-of-oil/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2007/07/troops-stay-in-iraq-because-of-oil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Threats to Food Supply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security of energy supply]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In The Independent, Kathey Marks reported on how the Australian Defence Minister, Brendan Nelson has admitted that oil was a major factor in the governments decision to keep troops in Iraq.

That’s no surprise to me.
Anti-war protesters have long said that the real reason behind the Iraq war was oil. They seem surprised that our leaders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would Al Gore have been a better US President for the Environment?</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2007/07/would-al-gore-have-been-a-better-us-president-for-the-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2007/07/would-al-gore-have-been-a-better-us-president-for-the-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security of energy supply]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When George W. Bush narrowly won the presidential election, many people suspected it would be a setback to the fight against global warming. But it’s only now with hindsight that we can grasp the severity of that setback.
We know that both men are concerned about US dependence on imported oil and that a sudden disruption [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jihad may start Peak Food</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2007/05/jihad-may-start-peak-food/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2007/05/jihad-may-start-peak-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 10:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[security of energy supply]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With world food supplies becoming tighter each year and the West being unable to produce food without oil and gas, we should consider the effect Jihad may have on oil supplies and therefore food supplies.

Jihad or Holy War is funded by oil and is very likely to cause a shortage of oil.
Wahabism, an extreme branch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia using Energy as a Political Weapon</title>
		<link>http://peakfood.co.uk/2007/05/russia-using-energy-as-a-political-weapon/</link>
		<comments>http://peakfood.co.uk/2007/05/russia-using-energy-as-a-political-weapon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 19:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leanne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[security of energy supply]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several European governments including the Baltic states and Poland are very nervous about the emergence of Russia as an Energy Superpower. They say Russia is using its energy as a political weapon and have repeatedly criticized the German-led plans for the trans-Baltic pipeline, which they claim will make EU members to the East more vulnerable [...]]]></description>
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