Interestingly, I wonder if labor (a major factor in repair as you say) is essentially irrelevant to the climate, and thus make spending copious labor, in stiu o

Interestingly, I wonder if labor (a major factor in repair as you say) is essentially irrelevant to the climate, and thus make spending copious labor, in stiu of more shipping & manufacture, the best thing environmentally. Shipping things around burns petroleum, but human labor costs mostly time (no climate impact) and calories, which are largely being burned anyway simply by existing. (Though this changes a little if we're talking hard manual labor instead of delicate work with the hands)