This volume attempts, mostly successfully to broaden the discussion, to build the ranks of those who would support
a new agrarianism — a localized, careful, beautiful, reined - in agriculture (and forestry and fisheries) that builds dignified lives and strong communities.
The railroad, for example, changed virtually everything about the United States in one generation (including our basic teleology, which went from Jeffersonian Edenic
agrarianism to
New Jerusalem technocracy); we now have the infamous five — nano, bio, robotics, ICT, and cogsci — bearing down at once.