Humanity's relationship with its places is a basic economic problem. We keep seeing arguments about factory farming vs small holders or other examples of the ruin that is agriculture, but not the ruin that is civilization itself (colonialism/extraction). Civilization (city-based society) is based on treating the natural world as a weak entity to be exploited by the bully that is human intelligence. We have spent the last 200 years replacing human labor on land with cheap energy-based systems of extraction.

Our entire concept of economics is based on perpetually increasing numbers of humans extracting increasing amounts of material from the planet without putting anything back.

Comparing one method to another doesn't address the basic problem: humanity is disconnected from the physical reality of the land that its offspring will depend upon.

Humans owe the planet 10,000 species-years of back pay (contribution to the environment's symbiosis), and we can't 'fix' that debt with technology or humanism (anthropocentrism).

We have to face the fact that humans are not intentional: our species is simply clever and mean. We isolated people from most natural risks in order to build civilizations. Eventually, the walls between humans and nature fail (COVID, climate change, etc), and civilization collapses.

This time, it's global.

Organic farming can't fix backward economics of a dead-end species' philosophy.