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totally right, consuming is polluting, which is a big responsibility nowadays for the environment So the best is to minimize consumption, and obviously things
by 11235813213455 3y ago
totally right, consuming is polluting, which is a big responsibility nowadays for the environment
So the best is to minimize consumption, and obviously things like drugs, travel, and many things are not essential products
- para_parolu 3y agoAnd having children
- JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy eating bugs"
- 11235813213455 3y agoI already eat bug from a lot of foraging and fruit market waste, not very intentionally, but they are there and they eat the same thing, so can't be bad, extra proteins actually
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- Scoundreller 3y agoNo need to minimize consumption for cocaine, ~90% of the resources used are in the distribution. If legalized, the cost of distribution would crater to that of other products, just a few dollars per kg.
- 11235813213455 3y agoit costs pollution to grow, transport, stock, plastic-wrap, etc.. it's like saying: "it doesn't cost pollution to buy those avocadoes grown in another continent since they're already there", it's true immediately (above all if very ripe), but in the mid-long term, reducing consumption reduces production & pollution (at all level of the chain)
- Scoundreller 3y agoSure there are some essential production and distribution costs, but let's remember that cocaine is a minimally processed leaf extract. You can industrialize its production and get close to sugar level production pricing and distribution. Sugar sourced from Brazil hits my Toronto supermarket shelf bagged at CAD$1.50/kg at 99.9% purity, including retailer markup. Which is like 1/50000th the retail price of cocaine. Even if it costs 10x as much due to lower volume/weaker extracts/slower growth/additional processing, you're talking a 99.9something% reduction in resource expenditure per dose. Price of something is a good representation of the resources destroyed ("costs") in its production.
- fsociety 3y agoMinimally processed leaf extract? You make it sound like extracting cocaine is the equivalent to making sugar.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoMost sugar today comes from beets and is extracted through an industrial process. Drug cartels rely on things like gasoline because they are commonly available, but if there were not criminal sanctions on the process, then it’s possible some higher-quality means of extraction would be employed.
- qwytw 3y ago> it’s possible Nope it's not possible and it's more than obvious way. The cocaine content in coca leaves is 0.23% to 0.96%. Sugarcane has a magnitude or so higher sugar content.
- Scoundreller 3y agoIt’s almost all from sugarcane in Canada, crude juice is extracted in places like Brazil and refined in Canada. You can chew out the sugar or cocaine if you like. (I think coca needs an acid base extraction to get a crystalline form, but that’s straightforward chemistry at scale)
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- dbsmith83 3y agoRight, let's just sit around in our tents in the dark and try not to move or speak unless absolutely necessary. Moving is not always essential, and has a caloric cost, which means food consumption. Are you sure being on this site right now is actually necessary? In fact, why bother being alive at all? Yeah, have fun with that. I'm going to enjoy my life!
- beAbU 3y agoTents are made from nylon, and nylon is made from fossil fuels!
- Borg3 3y agoHumanity can have just 2 modes of operation (3th one is fake path). 1) is to consume less and less, so we end up like living in tents in dark with population 10B and more.. 2) Smart-manage population growth and cut bullshit jobs, so we end up with 200M-300M people living good live. The choise is yours. I personally would go with (2) option, but its just me. Before anyone hit the downvote button, think about it in math. You only have limited amount of resources and energy. How you distribute it, is up to you.