"People eat — and this book explains in the most lucid way what they eat: namely the product of energy-intensive agriculture. It finds that the Green Revolution, hailed as a breakthrough by which to feed an exploding population, actually degrades the ecosystem, making us ever more dependent on energy inputs from oil and gas. But oil and gas are set to deplete to near exhaustion this century. The challenges are great, but there are solutions. This book is key reading for those wanting to be counted amongst the survivors."
—C. J. Campbell, Chairman, The Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO)

"In retrospect, the industrialization of agriculture was one of the greatest blunders in the history of our species; as Dale Allen Pfeiffer shows, it is a mistake that can be undone — and, given the imminent peak in global oil production, must be undone as soon as possible. The world's addiction to oil is as personal and prosaic as what's on your dinner plate and how it got there. This is a book of enormous importance."
—Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over , Powerdown , and The Oil Depletion Protocol

" Eating Fossil Fuels is a wake-up call for humanity. It traces how, with industrialization and globalization, we have stopped eating real food and have started to eat oil, increasing the fossil fuel content of the food chain and threatening the environment, our health and our future. Pfeiffer shows how creating fossil fuel-free ecological and localized food systems has become a central challenge for sustainability, and how you can help make this shift."
—Dr. Vandana Shiva, author of Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace and Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply

"As civilization stumbles blindly into the Post-Carbon Age, Dale Allen Pfeiffer has astutely identified our most critical vulnerability: the intimate dependency of our food system on finite fossil fuels.His book also includes a plethora of solutions and resources to help guide us to a sustainable, low-energy future."
—John G.Howe, author of The End of Fossil Energy and The Last Chance for Survival

" Eating Fossil Fuels is vital for those concerned about peak oil and climate change who are looking both for an understanding of fossil fuels in food production and an action plan."
—E. R."Pat"Murphy, Executive Director, The Community Solution and Producer of the Film "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil"