[Ost-news] Peak Phosphorus

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by Bill Totten (December 11 2007)

In an article I posted here on December 9th entitled "What Will We Eat  
as the Oil Runs Out?" Richard Heinberg refers to the peaking of another  
valuable, but finite, resource:

"Phosphorus is set to become much more scarce and expensive, according to  
a study by Patrick Dery, a Canadian agriculture and environment analyst  
and consultant. Using data from the US Geological Survey, Dery performed  
a peaking analysis on phosphate rock, similar to the techniques used by  
petroleum geologists to forecast declines in production from oilfields.

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    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/peak-phosphorus

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/peak-phosphorus