ABSTRACT
I have presented in the preceding Part II of this book a realistic and grim assessment of modern extractive agriculture. Its economic unsustainability, its degrading effects on the environment, the dangers it poses to human health – these problems have all deepened in recent decades, partly as a result of the Green Revolution and the industrialization of food production more generally. Indeed, in concluding my account of modern extractive agriculture at the end of Chapter 3, I asserted that the advances emerging from the Green Revolution have come at the expense of some fundamental values regarding the human role and identity within the ecosphere.
