permaculture

["Pete Gasper, Gasper Family Farm" <farmer1@gasperfarm.com>]

Do you think this still holds true for industrial civilizations which are 
greatly decoupled from agriculture and driven by economic engines tied more 
to skilled trades and technology?

There is very much a sense here in the US that we peaked as a civilization 
and are rapidly going through the phases of decadence and fall. But I'm not 
sure I can point to causal links between our own agricultural 
unsustainability and the problems we're suffering. They seem as much 
sociological. Societies seem to have a cycle like any living thing of birth, 
growth, maturity, stagnation and death.

Is this only natural or can it be cheated like a coppiced tree lives for 
otherwise unnatural lengths of time?

Pete

On 03/07/2014 01:04 PM, Steve Hart wrote:
> Jared diamond in his
> book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed". suggests that the
> majority if not all civilisation rises and falls from its agriculture.