I agree. This is why my answer to everyone's question "What can we do now?" is a simple slogan: Grow gardens, Grow community, Grow awareness. Those who heed these three injunctions--by organizing local garden guilds to support each other--will live longer than those who don't. Simple as that. Or as Norman Myers once put it, "We have two choices: a Gaian future, or no future." While our society at large has opted for the latter, we each can opt for the former--by learning, teaching, and practicing Permaculture, starting in our own back yards and community gardens.