EcoFuturism (in the Italian sense) is extremely my shit, we must glorify the immediate construction of floating islands for islander pops, the genetic engineering of coral reefs to thrive despite acidification, etc. We must not be content with merely cosmetic recycling programes!https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/1011003823303770112 …
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Have you read 1491? Reminds me of pre-Columbian ecosystem-scale engineering as discussed there.
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some examples from an article summarizing it, book is about pre-columbian americas https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/302445/ …pic.twitter.com/643prVaHNV
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Even artificial habitats can't be *fully owned*, unless they take up no scarce location whatsoever. Location is a natural resource that can't be supplanted.
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this seems to imply that a car is taxed according to the value of the space it's taking up at any given time, is that accurate?
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In a world in which we didn't treat free parking (and a lack of congestion pricing) as a basic human right, yeah
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This is very interesting and I'd like to explore a bit, would, eg, a herd of cattle be taxed according to their physical footprint or that of the grazing lands they required, water required by same, etc? (or some use-proportionate share of said grazing land tax?)
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That's an interesting question. I suppose one could first say that the cattle could either be taxed directly (congestion tax on public grazing land, to avoid tragedy of commons) or indirectly (private grazing land is taxed, and may charge to whoever uses it)
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it's not just the congestion with the private grazing land, though, is it? it'd seem to me like it'd have to be resource consumption too, i.e. eating the grass costs more than just occupying the space (esp. if you're pasturing goats who are going to close-crop it until it dies)
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nobody does, georgism is both morally and ethically incoherent everywhere it isn't self-refuting
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