We can feed the planet with Permaculture and with out a human die off. But it requires as massive shift in culture and in the organization of society. We have

We can feed the planet with Permaculture and with out a human die off. But it requires as massive shift in culture and in the organization of society. We have to relocalize agricultural production, so that we're not dependent on transporting crops grown in high density areas. We have to totally change the distribution of housing and farm land. We have to get rid of lawns and make it so that basically every speck of land not devoted to structures is growing food in some way. And we have to change our society so that people have the free time to harvest and store food. We have to accept that feeding everyone is going to require their time again and walk back a bit from our current extreme specialization. That's the part that is really, really hard to achieve. We're up against a ticking clock here, and I have no idea how to achieve it in time. The thing is we're going to get the massive human die off if we don't change. So we really have nothing to lose in trying. The only question is "How long do we have to try experiments in gradual change before we run out of time?" As for Monsanto, while I'm sure there's no Dr. Evil chewing on his pinkie at the top of its corporate hierarchy, it has done many things that are hard to call anything but evil. Even for a moral relativist like myself.