Is “Sustainable Agriculture” an Oxymoron?.
An elaboration on what Jared Diamond meant about “the worst mistake in the history of the human race” – with details about anthropological studies of subsistence patterns in various human cultures, and how these relate to sustainability, equity and justice. It makes a case for permaculture (a new take on traditional horticultural societies) as a solution to the multiple messes caused by agriculture.
If love of money is the root of all evil, and money is a way of exchanging surpluses, and surpluses come from the unsustainable overproduction that is the difference between horticulture and agriculture… then that might very well be when all the trouble started.
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 