WILL WE BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN CIVILIZATION

While agriculture made civilization possible, destructive agricultural practices have destroyed many civilizations, making it clear that without a truly sustainable agriculture civilization will not be sustainable. Neither ''organic'' nor industrial agriculture can sustain civilization on the basis of all evidence before us and thus a new form of agriculture has to be developed. New discoveries and thinking, in both agriculture and economics, are beginning to point the way to the development of such a new agriculture.