Inside Energy | Fueling Our Feast: How Fossil Fuels Become Our Food

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Inside Energy | Fueling Our Feast: How Fossil Fuels Become Our Food

Our modern food production system is based on turning fossil fuels into food. It is an incredibly inefficient system, with about 10 units of fossil energy converting to about 1 unit of food energy. It is also unsustainable as populations across the world continue to grow.  In this fun video, Inside Energy's Dan Boyce explains how fossil fuels are, in fact, our food.
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