Wendell Berry's poetry is quite moving, and he paints a valid picture of the value of a communitarian, agrarian life for all.

Which, if we only had a few million people on Earth, might be a real goal to strive for.

But we have 8 billion now, and we shouldn't even want to be rid of those real human beings. Communitarian agrarianism doesn't scale to 8 billion people.

So what do we do in the situation we find ourselves in?

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