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Farming comes with huge amounts of negative environmental externalities (lost ecosystems, runoff, pesticides). I'm curious how the cost effectiveness would chan
by rm999 11y ago
Farming comes with huge amounts of negative environmental externalities (lost ecosystems, runoff, pesticides). I'm curious how the cost effectiveness would change if farms were properly taxed for their environmental impact.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago> I'm curious how the cost effectiveness would change if farms were properly taxed for their environmental impact. Conversely, I wonder if the viability changes if urban areas would subsidize the underlying (most likely expensive) land costs for vertical farming, due to food being required to survive.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Conversely, I wonder if the viability changes if urban areas would subsidize the underlying (most likely expensive) land costs for vertical farming, due to food being required to survive. Well, the viability of living in urban areas would certainly change if another land use competing with housing and existing commercial uses was subsidized by taxing existing residents.
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- dwiel 11y agoThe same is true about the environmental impact of manufacturing all of the steel, aluminum, LEDs, electricity, etc. used in a vertical farm.