We don't become more sustainable by becoming farmers. We become more sustainable by collaborating more efficiently and by reducing consumption. It is foolish to think you will make a difference growing your own food when you have no idea how to do it. Farming isn't like riding a bycicle, it requires a lot of skill and knowledge to do it well. Escaping society is the opposite of increasing the efficiency of our collaboration as a species. Becoming an amateur farmer is a great educational and therapeutic hobby, but it isn't making the world more sustainable. If you want to improve things, find a local farmer and volunteer with them. Mutual aid is the foundation of prosperity and security and sustainability is another word for "future prosperity". As long as we must sell to earn a living, most of our communication is focused on fostering consumption by enticing greed, envy, lust, boastfulness, selfishness, etc. That only fuels short term destructive behavior. An economy fueled by consumption cannot be sustainable. When we are required to monetarily out perform the rest just in order to survive, we can't stop growing and fostering even more short term consumption. That is the core of the problem. All the rest is like rearranging the chairs on the titanic. To make a difference, foster mutual aid, here is how: @prosocialisefnd/how-to-begin-the-transition