now, i'm not saying there isn't a place for permaculture methods, in the sense that isolated communities and rural societies are necessarily going to continue to exist. if that's what you want, go at it.

but, no thank you.

so, it's not the future of anything at all - and we need to be careful that we don't trick ourselves that it is. 

leftists have a history of killing themselves off with stupid approaches to farming, and this is just the most recent example of it.