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Everything is a tradeoff. It's very easy to label things as waste in isolation. The reality is pesticides and other crop technologies substantially increase ef
by SkyPuncher 4y ago
Everything is a tradeoff. It's very easy to label things as waste in isolation.
The reality is pesticides and other crop technologies substantially increase efficiency of the land we're using. This means per capita: we're using less land (more back to nature), losing less crop (less fuel/maintenance wasted), and requiring an increasingly smaller percentage of the population to tend to crops.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoNo, absolutely not everything is a tradeoff, many things like eating meat or going to a casino are a total waste of resources
- aaaaaaaaaaab 4y agoYeah well, not sure about that meat thing buddy, not sure...
- ClumsyPilot 4y agodon't get me wrong, I love my steak and burger, but there are people who never eat meat and manage to built enough muscle to compete in the olympics.
- mikkelam 4y agoOther than taste and perhaps vitamins, what other good things do you get from the murdering of animals? It definitely is a "waste" of resources, when looking at it from a rational perspective. Humans like to enjoy life though.
- gruez 4y ago>many things like eating meat So don't ever eat out or make anything nice? Do you only eat rice and beans? > or going to a casino are a total waste of resources I broadly bucket expenses like that as "entertainment", which I guess isn't directly productive, but at the same time is arguably appreciated by the people who enjoy it. Hacker news arguably falls under this, mind you. There's a non-negligible amount of resources (server costs, paid moderator(s), and opportunity costs of all the participants) that's spent on it. So if you really want to put your money where your mouth is, you'd get off hn ;)