More On Food And Oil

I recently read a article about how our society is based on oil. The article is called Oil and Food: A Rising Security Challenge by Danille Murry. This is located at http://www.energybulletin.net/print.php?id=6052. This article talks about the energy use of oil increases due to transportation and population increase. My response to this is that the industrial food system is a finite system. This is because the energy consumption keeps increasing. If we look at our energy supply that we use now we see how much we use to transport it all over the world.Compare it to our total, we use a lot. Over the years we can see the rapid growth of energy that we use. For example when food is package it is individually wrapped, bagged and boxed. This process uses a lot of energy and raw materials that end up in landfills. An alternative to this would be creating a near by farm. This would dramatically decrease the use of energy that we use, but this is complex due to space. Take New york for example, there is not enough space to have a large enough farm to feed all of New York. Of course creating the alternate space we can save much more energy in the future.