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I'm here to argue that anything that concentrates farming and decreases required land use (and thus habitat destruction for wildlife) seems like a good thing. I
by HelloMcFly 2y ago
I'm here to argue that anything that concentrates farming and decreases required land use (and thus habitat destruction for wildlife) seems like a good thing. I'm sure there's plenty of externalities and second-order effects to consider, but I'm just a guy who loves to hear the birds sing.
- jonah 2y agoThat would be wonderful but how often do you hear about farmland being fallowed and restored to its native vegetation vs. being turned into a subdivision full of Mc Mansions or a giant distribution center...
- bluGill 2y agoIt is called CRP and happens all the time.
- dopylitty 2y agoI tend to agree but there’s a sort of induced demand effect with this kind of thing. Instead of producing the same amount but more efficiently it’s used as an excuse to produce and consume even more. The same happens with cloud computing. Now companies that used to have to pay for physical servers so rationed their use can have huge amounts of compute just sitting idle (not obviously idle because there’s so much steady state computing for logs, EDR, monitoring etc) which then causes the cloud providers to trash more land and consume more energy and water for their data centers.