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It is very therapeutic to garden, though. (lemmy.today)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 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.

[–] tastysnacks 7 points 6 months ago

Subsidized cost effectiveness.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 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.