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Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

Albert Allen Bartlett

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Albert Allen Bartlett
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: March 21
Died: 2013
Died: September 7
Physicist
University Teacher
Shanghai
China
Agriculture
Food
Modern
Land
Use
Petroleum
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