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Efficiency is the wrong measure of a food system; what matters is what it costs at a level of energy and materials that can be sustained.
Drawn from what Chris Smaje said
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Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Chris Smaje said
a more relevant metric in the long term is the cost, not the efficiency, of food production methods at sustainable levels of energetic and material throughput.
Where this was said
↗Saving the world from bad ideas: the continuing failure of food ecomodernismchrissmaje.com
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