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Equally important and equally troublesome, the industrialization of agriculture has disconnected people from the earth. We are still as dependent upon the earth, upon farmland, for our physical survival as when all people were hunters and gathers. Our dependence is less direct and our connections more complex, but human life is still critically connected to life in the soil and to the farmers who help nurture life from the soil. With industrialization, farmers came to rely on commercial chemicals rather than the natural health and fertility of the land. These agrichemicals now threaten the natural productivity of the soil, and pollute the natural environment. Perhaps more important, the productivity of industrial agriculture now depends upon non-renewable sources of energy, rather than the self-renewing photosynthetic capacity of living organisms. Such an agricultural system is fundamentally incapable of sustaining human life on earth. In our pursuit of wealth, we have sacrificed our ethical and moral responsibility to the Creator to be good stewards of the earth.