Scale+Out+of+Balance

"specialists ourselves, we can no longer imagine anyone but an expert, or anything but a new technology or law, solving our problems" (Why Bother? By Michael Pollan, 173).


 * “The United Nations reported that in 2000 the number of people suffering from overnutrition - a billion - had officially surpassed the number suffering from malnutrition - 800 million” (p. 102)**

"It's all connected. This farm is more like an organism than a machine, and like any organism it has its proper scale. A mouse is the size of a mouse for a good reason, and a mouse that was the size of an elephant wouldn't do very well" (213).