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Maybe we NEED to be closed for a while. Slow down the consumption. Grow our own food. Barter with each other for services. We can reverse some of the damage.
by ta17711771 6y ago
Maybe we NEED to be closed for a while.
Slow down the consumption. Grow our own food. Barter with each other for services.
We can reverse some of the damage. Let's do it.
- pjc50 6y agoCan't grow your own food at short notice unless you really love cress.
- ta17711771 6y agoWe'd better get started, and not stop this time, then. Everyone used to have "Victory" gardens or whatever they were called....why did we fuck that up? Postmates? Another 5 hours of overtime? To pay for the Maserati and Postmates?
- pjc50 6y agoPeople used to have gardens in the first place, yes. In high density urban environments that's quite the luxury. It's hard work, not very efficient, and highly seasonal. And if you're in the overtime-earning class you're not buying a Maserati. Lots of places in America mandate that your visible garden be grass. Even if the climate is really unsuitable.
- morsch 6y ago> Lots of places in America mandate that your visible garden be grass. Even if the climate is really unsuitable. I don't have any retro-agricultural nostalgia beyond growing tomatos for fun, but that is something you can and should change either way.
- ta17711771 6y ago> Lots of places in America mandate that your visible garden be grass. Lots of places in America mandate you don't do over 55MPH, but yet.... They can't stop us all. Just grow.
- PixyMisa 6y agoThat would kill upwards of 95% of the world's population.
- ta17711771 6y agoNonsense. Don't forget, things were more than livable a hundred years ago. We don't need multinationals to feed us. It's a sham. We're just not making proper use of our available space/resources as individuals.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> Don't forget, things were more than livable a hundred years ago. Well, you're writing off ~75% of the world population right there. So that's not a strong argument. There was quite a lot of growing your own food at the time, true, but not barter.
- nostrebored 6y agoThis is a ridiculously myopic view of the world. A more efficient economy supports more people. This is inarguable.
- mcv 6y agoA more efficient economy may also be more vulnerable. Food produced closer to home, with decentralised supply chains, may be more expensive, but are harder to disrupt on a large scale in the face of disaster.
- Filligree 6y agoSo your solution is to, what, kill people until a less efficient economy works again?
- mcv 6y agoI have no idea where you'd possibly get such a bizarre idea. For one thing, I'm not offering a solution here, but an analysis. But if you want a solution, mine would be to save as many lives and reorganize the economy so less lives will be risked in the name of short-term profits.
- joeberon 6y agoProducing compost can be very bad for the environment
- sukilot 6y agoHow does my barber take delivery of sheet metal I produce?