>>130298lol, but I am a scientist (or will be very soon anyway)
It will be with ecological and sociological techniques, not whizzbang biotechnology techniques. Or rather, a correct blend of the two. Recent years has been too much of a push towards up and coming biotech-science which supposedly gives better yeilds/ better this/ better that and thus we throw away old techniques (and crop varieties). And then - theres a push back towards older techniques again when new techniques have a blowout/ complication. My current lecturer; an agricultural mycologist, stresses the importance of not placing too much emphasis on new techniques and completely disregarding the old ones. Traditional mixed farming techniques (which permaculture derives from) have been misplaced for monocultures and the resistance from diseases by vertical resistance, rather than natural horizontal resistance. (Which has caused a great deal of complication). Instead of focusing on the new pesticide discovered, the new gene transplanted, its practices like mixed crop farming that will lead the world on into a future of worldwide prosperity.
Its simple measures like maintaining healthy practices while incorporating modern scientific techniques that will get the world to where it needs to be - sustainable.
For an /out/door board this place sure has its fair share of anticonservation fuckwits. I'm far from a hippie but industrialising everything and moving too fast for our own good isnt going to do anything for the world.
If you cared about the /out/doors at all you might see the need for importance of "hippie"-ideals in keeping outdoors beautiful and more importantly functioning ecosystems. Heres a quote from Carl Sagan himself supported ideas that would today probably centre around permaculture and its ehtics