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  • adjective After a decline in reliance on petroleum.

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post- +‎ petroleum

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  • What is the future of agriculture in a postpetroleum world?

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: The Next Agriculture? 2008

  • First, systemic change in complex systems rarely follows linear patterns; second, economic trends already in place may well favor the emergence of a viable postpetroleum agriculture.

    Archive 2008-03-01 papabear 2008

  • First, systemic change in complex systems rarely follows linear patterns; second, economic trends already in place may well favor the emergence of a viable postpetroleum agriculture.

    Archive 2008-03-02 papabear 2008

  • Behind all of this lies the central political fact of the limits to growth: the reduction of First World nations to a Third World lifestyle that will be the inevitable result of any transition to a postpetroleum world, whether that transition is deliberate or unplanned.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

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