>Firstly, a lot of the things advanced by them are simply not scalable to the entire human race. It's scalable to a large proportion of it especially in the we

>Firstly, a lot of the things advanced by them are simply not scalable to the entire human race. It's scalable to a large proportion of it especially in the west and other such areas with a fitting climate and should probably be incentivized tbh. One could say the same about lawns. Which were initially thing of the ultra few who could signal they could both afford to leave land unproductive and employ people to maintain it. Now there's a stupid amount of it. And yes this type of agriculture requires a lot of extra labour which is often understated that I'll agree on. >It's not even clear to me that "Big Age" is even a bad thing, seeing that their massive economies of scale allow them to produce more for less(money, environmental impact) than smaller farmers. It's environmental impact is ridiculous I don't see how this is even debatable. Insect populations in many places have plummeted, topsoil is being eroded, etc. It does indeed make more sense financially and by a good amount but a large part of that is due to cheap plentiful fertilizers a big share of which comes from fossil fuels and deposits in Morocco and the like that will at some point run out and/or get a lot more expensive to get. We could stretch these resources so so much if we were more efficient about using them by dropping/adopting some practices but we do not because it does not make financial sense to do so right now. Similar for irrigation issues in many areas. The moment this inflow of fertilizer starts to end food becomes a lot more expensive, large scale tillage agriculture becomes more difficult and more labour intensive practices common in the permaculture community start making more sense imo. You can't keep going without such fertilizer inputs on soils that are ecologically near dead due to tillage, pest/herbicicides, etc We can reduce our land use, amount of packaging materials and impact on the environment. We don't need to be dogmatic about it either since there's a wide open middle ground between what we do now and some kind of 0 impact, 0 pesticides, etc vision.