Yu sees the issue from the standpoint of sustainability: If we persist in evaluating these self-supporting organic-farming communities in terms of the large-systems perspective of industrial society, we'll forever see them as religious nuts and miss the positive significance of their actions. Yu argues that these communities in fact represent experimental challenges to industrialization and consumer culture.
中原大學建築系教授喻肇青從永續的角度提出不同觀點：對於這類自耕自養、並往往結合有機或自然生產的社群，如果仍用工業社會的大系統思維，把他們看成是一群怪異極端的宗教徒，將錯失這種生活背後的積極意義──一種挑戰工業化及消費文明的反思實驗。