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    Food prices are still tied to fossil fuel prices. This will cause a lot of very real pain, among the poorest in the world.

    So yes, we need to get to net zero carbon. But there has to be a more humane way than unplanned cold turkey.

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      It’s only cold turkey now because we haven’t done it in the last 50 years.

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      That time has passed. It was supposed to be a slow transition since 1970s.

      Now the only option is to just stop now.

      And most of the world’s food is produced locally. For those few heavily industrialized countries that chose to centralize their food systems to be dependent on fossil fuels, they have enough wealth to give free food to their poor populations.

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        And most of the world’s food is produced locally.

        …With imported nitrogen fertilizer made from fossil fuel. And with farm machines burning imported oil. And transported even to local market using imported fuel.

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          Nope. False misinformation (though common misconception).

          Most of the world’s food systems never adopted the broken “green revolution”. They’re local and mostly organic.