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It is very therapeutic to garden, though. (lemmy.today)
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[–] [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.