We are completely dependent on fossil fuels for food. Perhaps 50% or more of mined fuels are used for food production (petro-fertilizers, irrigation, storage and distribution). The rest goes towards making durable goods, transport, heating cooling etc. Without fossil fuels we would simply be dead.
So who/what are the precursors of OPEC, Monsanto, Cargill, Schlumberger, Hallyburton etc ... basically big entities that provide food and energy security ?
So who/what are the precursors of OPEC, Monsanto, Cargill, Schlumberger, Hallyburton etc ... basically big entities that provide food and energy security ?
What enabled the first population explosions that still continue today? The link below shows evidence of nitrates from animal dung at early farming sites.
first farmers used manure
first farmers used manure
- Goat and sheep are the first domesticated hoofed animals
- They can't survive on flat land, since they cant run like antelope and deer
- They are adapted to evade predators in mountains
- The first people who hunted and domesticated them were mountain people
- The domestication center appear to be the mountains south and south west of the caspian
There are a network of ranges radiating from this general vicinity, through the Levant, Caucasus, Anatolia, Balkans, Baluchistan and Turkmenistan
- They either formed symbiotic relationships with the first farmers or became first farmers
- Sedentary agriculture would not be competitive without animal dung.
- Most early farming and proto-urban sites are near mountain or hill ranges.
- Numerous myths from Sumer(Enkidu), India(Rishyasingha, Pashupati), Europe(Cornucopia, Unicorn &virgin) that attest to memories of the special status accorded to wild men who tended animals. They seemed to have been welcomed with more than open arms.
