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“We’re heading to a place where we don’t have weavers; we just have shirt production.” Not exactly the same but as long as we have national reservoirs and get

• lsc 8y ago
  >politically enforced sustainability and diversity This is important, and politically difficult. I mean, we subsidize farms to farm in America because it makes us much more secure against all sorts of potential problems. I, for one, think farm subsidies, if well done, are a very good use of my defense tax dollar. But it's important that we see those subsidies as a defense subsidy and not, you know, just a handout to a particular class of people; This means that we need sustainable farming practices and we need crop diversity, as those are the only way to defend against some of the threats we face. (I mean, I personally see it as "you don't want a subsidy? do what you like. But if you want a subsidy? you have to follow these best practices." then you set the subsidy numbers based on how many acres you think we need for that sort of thing.)
  • singularity2001 8y ago
    Yes, conditional subsidies. Obvious in hindsight, thus brilliant. ++