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I guess I'm trying to find the moment it really broke. Did the right article finally hit the right social media algorithm? Is this late capitalism finally coming home to roost on people's hearts? I suppose I'm asking to read the "source code" but it doesn't exist.
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I don’t think there’s a real blip. People don’t see the vast majority of plastic flows. This is a transient cosmetic fad. On the industrial backend, plastics are generally a net good because of the amount of breakage, spoilage, and waste prevented by good packaging.
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Somehow that feels parallel to the argument that massive monocultures of genetically modified wheat and soy fields are a net good because they feed people efficiently. Our accounting never seems thorough enough. Still, I hear you.
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Yes it’s a similar argument. GMOs packaged in plastics ftw 😎 Your style of food economics, which I think of as a kind of neoprimitivist hipster permaculture with calibrated use of tech, seems impossible beyond a certain population density. Can’t work in about 2/3 of the world.
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Sure, when so defined. I'm totally beholden to my SF Bay Area scene right now, because that's my market, but I'm actually leaving in a couple of months to start working within a much bigger and more obfuscated cattle market.
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My governing principle: improve degraded land (with some qualifiers thrown in to the mix, of course). The rate of land degradation is so much faster than most people realize; states rise and fall but land persists in varying degrees of un/health.
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