"European countries, meanwhile, have very little autonomy when it comes to their diet. In the United Kingdom, for example, it is estimated that arable land production accounts for only 50 per cent of the population’s food needs.
(DEFRA, ‘UK Food Security Assessment: Detailed Analysis’, 2010. https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130402191230/http:/archive.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/food/pdf/food-assess100105.pdf.
David Korowicz, ‘On the cusp of collapse: Complexity, energy and the globalised economy’, in (FEASTA & New Society Publishers, 2010), .)"
"More dramatic still, power outages that last too long, coupled with interruptions in the supply of oil, could interfere with the emergency shutdown procedures of nuclear reactors. Because – as we hardly need remind you – it takes weeks or even months of work, energy and maintenance to cool and shut down most reactors …"
"It is to see that utopia has suddenly changed camp: today, the utopian is whoever believes that everything can just keep going as before. Realism, on the contrary, consists in putting all our remaining energy into a rapid and radical transition, in building local resilience, whether in territorial or human terms."
