I'm anti-pesticide, herbicide, what-ever-icide.
If we take the great plains as an example, they grow a lot of wheat and corn, right. And the massive, big-as-a-state Ogalala aquifer is almost empty. Not because of almonds and avocados. I think where we might agree is that a LOT of the corn they grow there is used to fatten up cows, and I agree that humans ought to cut their meat consumption by maybe 90%?
I think you'd have to add mono-culture, straight line tilling and retilling and reretilling to the list of things that deplete the topsoil.
Indeed, but at a fraction of the rate we're depleting it.
I partially agree. All the the factors you list exacerbate the problem, no doubt. But most farming done around the world is unsustainable.
Partially agree. Again the things you mention are all problems.
That said, what I infer from your posts in this thread is that you're advocating for us all to live under significant austerity constraints. No doubt that could solve some of our immediate problems, but again, I think we'd be better off with a billion people living great lives, with wide open spaces, and a biodiverse environment, than with 8 billion people living harshly austere lives in a eco-disaster. Perhaps all eating some sort of sustainable, gray gruel?