One of my pet peeves is the conventional "wisdom" that organic and sustainable agriculture may be all right for your typical upper middle class granola-eating yoga-doing Whole Foods shopper, but feeding the world may only be accomplished through chemical-based agriculture. Tom Philpott and Mark Bittman have both written excellent pieces debunking this conventional wisdom, and both are must-reads.
Grist article by Tom Philpott
New York Times Op-Ed by Mark Bittman
This debate reminds me of the debate over the Iraq war, when those who said invading Iraq and Afghanistan would be a disaster were ridiculed by the "serious" people. The same thing happened with climate change - weaning ourselves off of fossil fuels would wreck the economy! Now it is happening with the economy - all "serious" people say we need focus exclusively on the national debt. Of course, when push comes to shove, the true agenda is revealed.
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