Claims / C-PZMH5Y261B
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Distance from your food is a measure of how far you can fall. Part I's comparison: the Soviet collapse was not a human tragedy on the scale of Rome's because its economy was still relatively local, with roughly one calorie of energy moving each calorie of food to the consumer, so the breakdown of central control did not drastically change local conditions. The mechanized American model requires twelve calories of energy per calorie delivered, so a large-scale disruption of the food system means starvation rather than hardship.
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The average calorie of food consumed only required a calorie of energy to be transported to the consumer. Thus, the breakdown of central control didn’t drastically affect local conditions. In contrast, the highly efficient, mechanized factory farming model of the US requires twelve calories of energ
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