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>Yet we've seen how centralising everything has made our world a lot less resilient. A lot less resilient compared to what?
by itsoktocry 2y ago
>Yet we've seen how centralising everything has made our world a lot less resilient.
A lot less resilient compared to what?
- 9dev 2y agoCompared to a world before global economic trade relations, standardisation, and hyper-dependent supply chains.
- berkes 2y agoResilient to pests, environmental changes, etc? Biodiversity is a very good mechanism for resilience. Even on a tiny scale: if this year one of my tomato varieties doesn't produce due to heat/cold/damp, some of the others will. And if all tomatoes fail, I have beans. Or salad. And potatoes, and turnips, and carrots. Yet if all you have is one variety of potatoes, and it gets sick, it can upset an entire country, kill millions¹ You'd think the solution is obvious, but the opposite is happening. Especially the staple foods that are now feeding the billions, are rapidly dwindling in varieties. Some crops, like bananas and agave already down to effectively one genetic variety - if (when) that fails, we'll lose the ability to produce bananas or agave (tequila, etc) almost entirely. Imagine this happening to rice or grain or potatoes. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)