Re:Cadbury ‘pushing orangutans towards extinction by wreckin...
by roenxi on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @02:45PM
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Well, we use different sources for different things, but as a rule literally all fabrication and industrial activity uses energy. Eg, some big ones,
* Producing aluminium (Apple products)
* Producing & storing food (Haber process is energy -> fertiliser @ ~1-2% of worlds energy, refrigeration will also be a big deal)
* Transport (of food and goods)
* Heating (probably a bigger deal in places like Europe)
Energy is secretly quite fungible - eg, we can burn fossil fuels directly for grid electricity and use grid electricity as a substitute for fossil fuels if the price differential between the two gets large.
If general energy costs go up, food prices go up. That is the most obvious link between energy prices and poverty, but there are other less clear ones.
* Producing aluminium (Apple products) * Producing & storing food (Haber process is energy -> fertiliser @ ~1-2% of worlds energy, refrigeration will also be a big deal) * Transport (of food and goods) * Heating (probably a bigger deal in places like Europe)
Energy is secretly quite fungible - eg, we can burn fossil fuels directly for grid electricity and use grid electricity as a substitute for fossil fuels if the price differential between the two gets large.
If general energy costs go up, food prices go up. That is the most obvious link between energy prices and poverty, but there are other less clear ones.