• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    'Cost effectives’ when not counting all the costs of monoculturing all the things. Or transport.

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      6 months ago

      Most “cost effective” things are only that if you don’t count Negative Externalities.

      The obvious example is fossil fuels.

      Yeah sure, if everybody else is enduring and/or paying for the bad side effects of the way somebody conducts an economic activity, it’s “cost effective” for those doing that activity that way.

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      6 months ago

      I think the hypothetical here implies transport would still exist for a primarily home-garden non-industrial agriculture replacement system. Or do you think the whole world should suddenly stop trading? Might as well since we’re writing a fantasy fiction, anything goes.