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I love it. I have been saying for years, why are we taxing income and employment but not pollution? Are we trying to do away with jobs while exacerbating systemic toxicity?

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Trucks drive oysters from the Gulf Coast to the Chesapeake Bay area in order to shuck the oysters. That's how badly we optimize minimizing labor over fuel.

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Jan 23·edited Jan 23Liked by Fabius Minarchus

I don't know where the cabbages I just saw in the grocery store were grown (I'm in MN), or what kind of chemicals were used or how much fuel used to get them here, but I do know the organic cabbage I grew last summer and just pulled out of my root cellar tastes better and more fresh. Same for the potatoes and carrots. Everything would be healthier if there were small farms in abundance.

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Indeed. "The Omnivore's Dilemma" should be part of every reactionary's reading list.

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Jan 23Liked by Fabius Minarchus

We need to bring back Victory Gardens.

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And maybe using sheep as lawnmowers...

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Jan 24Liked by Fabius Minarchus

If I were in charge of the Great Reset, I'd make using a leaf blower a capital offense.

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A bag attachment on a lawnmower is far faster anyway.

I wish they made lawnmowers with water cooled engines and bigger mufflers.

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But, but, that would interfere with homeless camps!

Kidding aside, I can imagine victory farms too, families with lots of kids running around, after the land revolution....

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Take back California for the right, by out-environmentalisting the Democrats and out-greening the greens. Goddamn I love this, and I love how plausible it sounds, too. If it's go big or go home, I just wish we had fewer people going home.

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There is no place to hide. The Reddest of Red states have Blue cities and universities. And if the United States breaks up, national socialist China becomes the new Evil Empire.

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