I guess there's always going to be varying points of view; in a biodiversity course I took a decade ago, agriculture was cited as the first volley of negative anthropogenic impacts to evolutionary biology, perhaps soon after the extinctions of the large Pleistocene mammals as a result of hunting/and the beginnings of animal husbandry. Industrial agriculture -- cattle feedlots and palm oil monoculture leave little in the way of opportunities for bio-diversity. I guess we are going to have to depend upon integrative/accomodative agriculture in the future.
--- On Sun, 8/30/09, Madhusudan Katti <[email protected]> wrote: From: Madhusudan Katti <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Notwithstanding that Agriculture is Anathema to Ecology, Consider Permaculture To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 8:50 AM Perhaps you are trying to be provocative... but why do you think that agriculture is "anathema" to ecology? On Aug 30, 2009, at 7:57 AM, Thomas Hardy wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S6kTlz6Mk4 > > >
