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quite the contrary. trying to grow food where it needs a fuckton of water and fertilizer (and pesticides and herbicides).
because of idiotic subsidies.
similarly it's not the heating/cooling, it's the lack of modern insulation and heat pumps.
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multi hour commutes are bad anyway, but even a few minutes in cars every day at the same time as everyone else is bad (because it's not scalable)
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quite the contrary. trying to grow food where it needs a fuckton of water and fertilizer (and pesticides and herbicides).
because of idiotic subsidies.
similarly it's not the heating/cooling, it's the lack of modern insulation and heat pumps.
...
multi hour commutes are bad anyway, but even a few minutes in cars every day at the same time as everyone else is bad (because it's not scalable)