Origins of the Organic Agriculture DebateISBN: 978-0-8138-0513-9
Hardcover
211 pages
October 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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· explores the factors involved in our modern fear of technology, a fear which forms the foundation for anti-technology beliefs and practices.
· Argues that vitalism is at the core of an array of contemporary anti-science and anti-technology movements.
· Helps readers fully understand the ferocity with which certain beliefs about homeopathic medicine and the “organic” are held against all evidence to the contrary.
· Explains the history of nitrogen in life and in agriculture, countering myths of scarce resources and beliefs about the sufficiency of organic nitrogen to feed the world’s population.
· Purports that technology creates resources, debunking the idea that resources are natural, fixed and finite.
· Updates and clarifies issues discussed in the author’s previous works: A Theory of Technology (1985), Agriculture and Modern Technology (2001) and The Environment, Our Natural Resources and Modern Technology (2002).
· Argues that vitalism is at the core of an array of contemporary anti-science and anti-technology movements.
· Helps readers fully understand the ferocity with which certain beliefs about homeopathic medicine and the “organic” are held against all evidence to the contrary.
· Explains the history of nitrogen in life and in agriculture, countering myths of scarce resources and beliefs about the sufficiency of organic nitrogen to feed the world’s population.
· Purports that technology creates resources, debunking the idea that resources are natural, fixed and finite.
· Updates and clarifies issues discussed in the author’s previous works: A Theory of Technology (1985), Agriculture and Modern Technology (2001) and The Environment, Our Natural Resources and Modern Technology (2002).
