I love electric cars myself, and while I don't own any, if I bought one, it would be electric. However (and I have a draft already on this topic) electric cars by themselves don't solve much. We need better cities, better public transportation systems and a different approach to cars and car ownership altogether.

Now, when it comes to agriculture, again, I think there's nothing inherently wrong with it, it's more the way we do it. Again, if our cities and buildings were created in a way that incorporates nature rather excludes it, we'd be looking at a very different reality.

My issue in general with doomsday books is that don't really solve anything, and they always fall into extremes. They're also fairly easy to write because when you write a book about how we're all fucked, you don't have to architect solutions and present them.

An additional point that's worth making is that any theory if written well enough, will be convincing. Look at organised religion for instance, or Hitler's Mein Kampf. This is why whenever I read something that I feel could render me a zealot, I wait a couple of months, let it simmer and settle and give a bit more space to complementary facts, theories, pragmatism, etc.