> The holistic approach, typified by Savory, sees human beings as stewards of the Earth, a force for good when guided by the right principles.
Where's The American Conservative stand on regulation to guide agribusiness by those "right principles"? Since, you know, otherwise they'll just keep doing whatever makes the most money. Any plans for dealing with the resulting higher costs for staple foods, using these approaches? What's the rate of voluntary adoption look like? On track to account for a majority of food production within the next couple decades, say?
Yeah, that's what I thought.
> Monbiot and his fellow Cartesian rationalists handicap their ability to understand complex ecological systems as soon as they make measurement of inert nature, out of context, a condition for understanding. In argument with advocates of holistic agriculture, this leads to all sorts of name-calling—“pseudoscience,” “greenwash,” “climate denial”
OMG.
Waste of ink/pixels.