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This is the Tom Hartman program.

Welcome to the Anthropocene, the age of human die-offs.

We have been living in, for the past couple hundred years, in large part because of our ability to

use fossil fuels to increase our capacity to grow food. We have been living in a, a housey on

area, in an area of extraordinary prosperity and health and, I mean, even the poorest in the

world are better off than the poorest in the world where 100 years ago or 200 years ago.

We convert fossil fuels into fertilizer, which allows us to grow more food on the same amount of

land. We convert fossil fuels into pesticides and herbicides, which allow us to outcompete our

competitors, the weeds and the bugs. The result of this is that, you know, we've gone from

more than 70% of us being farmers 200 years ago to only 2% of us being farmers now,

because our land has become so productive as a consequence of our use of fossil fuels.

And, guess what? Fossil fuels are becoming harder to find, more expensive to produce,

and they're destroying our planet. Now, this possibility that we are facing, in fact,

I would say, probability that we are facing large-scale food shortages around the world. There's

already famine going on in several countries in the world as we speak. But I'm talking about

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