Against The Grain by Richard Manning
How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
A sweeping critique of the agricultural revolution, contending that the shift to farming entrenched hierarchy and coercion, degraded ecosystems, and diminished human health. Synthesizing insights from anthropology, ecology, and history, it argues that domestication and surplus enabled elite control, population booms, soil exhaustion, and biodiversity loss, culminating in fossil-fuel-dependent industrial food systems. It contrasts these outcomes with the relative sustainability of foraging lifeways and urges a reimagining of food and land use grounded in diversity, resilience, and ecological limits.
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- Published
- 2004
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 232-240
- Original Language
- English
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