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Feeding Everyone No Matter What
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Feeding Everyone No Matter What: Managing Food Security After Global Catastrophe

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Feeding Everyone No Matter What presents a scientific approach to the practicalities of planning for long-term interruption to food production.

The primary historic solution developed over the last several decades is increased food storage. However, storing up enough food to feed everyone would take a significant amount of time and would increase the price of food, killing additional people due to inadequate global access to affordable food. Humanity is far from doomed, however, in these situations - there are solutions.

This book provides an order of magnitude technical analysis comparing caloric requirements of all humans for five years with conversion of existing vegetation and fossil fuels to edible food. It presents mechanisms for global-scale conversion including: natural gas-digesting bacteria, extracting food from leaves, and conversion of fiber by enzymes, mushroom or bacteria growth, or a two-step process involving partial decomposition of fiber by fungi and/or bacteria and feeding them to animals such as beetles, ruminants (cows, deer, etc), rats and chickens. It includes an analysis to determine the ramp rates for each option and the results show that careful planning and global cooperation could ensure the bulk of humanity and biodiversity could be maintained in even in the most extreme circumstances.

Key Features

  • Summarizes the severity and probabilities of global catastrophe scenarios, which could lead to a complete loss of agricultural production
  • More than 10 detailed mechanisms for global-scale solutions to the food crisis and their evaluation to test their viability
  • Detailed roadmap for future R&D for human survival after global catastrophe

Readership

Researchers, professionals and students in food security, food engineering, disaster management and public health, preppers

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Worldwide Crop Death: The Five Crop-killing Scenarios
  3. No Sun: Three sunlight-killing scenarios
  4. Food Storage, Food Conservation, and Cannibalism
  5. Stopgap Food Production: Fast food
  6. Fibre Supply for Conversion to Food
  7. Solutions: Stored Biomass/Fossil Fuel Conversion to Food
  8. Practical Matters: Energy, Water, Nutrition, Taste, Biodiversity, & Cooperation
  9. Moral Hazard
  10. Serious Prepping: A Guide to Necessary Research


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Praise for Feeding Everyone No Matter What

  • "This book lays out the agenda for a new research field: how to feed the world in the event of a global catastrophe. This could be the most important research we hope never to have to use. Denkenberger and Pearce take a hard-nosed look at where we could turn for food in the event of the collapse of agriculture. Their ideas are innovative and striking, and surely worthy of further development." -- Robert Wiblin | Executive Director | The Centre for Effective Altruism, housed in University of Oxford
  • "It’s a fascinating read that gives us some great insight about not only a probably state of agriculture but also how different or similar it is to our current state. " - Christian Arca
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