Thursday, March 06, 2008

AR: The Next Agriculture

The Next Agriculture
Recent debates around the future of agriculture on the far side of Hubbert's peak, wrestling with questions of the reversibility of the rise of industrial agriculture, have missed two crucial points. 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.

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His response to
Stuart Staniford’s The Fallacy of Reversibility and Sharon Astyk’s Is Localization Doomed?

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