But industrial agriculture's ability to produce gargantuan amounts of food also makes it exceptionally susceptible to climate change.
Joseph Cirincione, the director for nuclear policy at the Center for American Progress, a Washington, D.C., think tank, told me, "Syria does not have the technical, industrial, or financial ability to support a nuclear-weapons program.
With its automobile-assembly plants and slaughterhouses, it was widely considered the most hard-bitten town on earth, the very picture of industrial capitalism's ability to crush the human soul, and that was the tribute paid to it by its earlier chroniclers: Frank Norris, Upton Sinclair, James T. Farrell, Nelson Algren.
"The Americans' involvement was due to their industrial capacity, their ability to build most of these mines.
Not only did you lose $2, you lost your job, your industrial capacity, your ability to innovate and create new products, and your standard of living.
To top it off, a study recently published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, asserts that "with global food needs predicted to greatly increase in the next 50 years, it's critical to look more closely at organic farming, because aside from the environmental impacts of industrial agriculture, the ability of synthetic fertilizers to increase crop yields has been declining".
However, because the intention of many DE programs is the production of enzymes for use in industrial processes, the ability to function in organic solvents is often another important objective function, and can be solved via the above strategies.
Furthermore, as high temperatures are required for the pre-treatment and delignification of plant biomass in many industrial processes, the ability of thermophilic microorganisms to tolerate higher temperatures, as well as producing thermostable hydrolytic enzymes, can potentially reduce process costs [ 8, 11].
Nonetheless, as the nation's civilian society and especially its military apparatus come to depend ever more on electronic communication and information systems, the development of such systems by potentially unfriendly nations with significant industrial and technological abilities could become a military quandary.
The textile industry has been relatively unique in industrial history in its ability to productively use unskilled labour at almost any scale.
