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.
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