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Locally produced "everything" is the future. Just in time manufacturing and delivery is great if you have the tolerance for occasional complete failures and sl
by blunte 5y ago
Locally produced "everything" is the future. Just in time manufacturing and delivery is great if you have the tolerance for occasional complete failures and slow restarts.
But those occasional failures cause people to get creative or to change their priorities (being willing to pay a bit more for a product that they know they can always get, not just one they can get cheaply when everything is going according to plan). This also applies to food.
- jimbob45 5y agoHow can that be true when we’re discussing the monumental waste of water of growing hops in an arid state three threads over?
- blunte 5y agoYou can’t continue to use unsustainable farming practices. The local future of farming will be combinations of permaculture food forests in public spaces, rooftop gardens, vertical high efficiency (closed system) farms, etc.
- opsecweather 5y agoCentralization seems like a stronger force than decentralization, eg FANG. Whole Foods used to check the "change your priorities" box, but we know how that ended.
- blunte 5y agoThose centralization examples are slowly breaking down right now, and the independent, community systems are (re)gaining popularity.