the idea of returning to small, local, (69/70) ...


FACE-TO-FACE
INTERACTIONS AS
A WAY TO AVERT CLIMATE CHANGE
DOES NOT SEEM PRACTICAL FOR SEVERE ECONOMIC REASONS,
SOME REASONABLE AND
SOME NOT.

SINCE
THE LIBERAL VISION
OF GLOBAL ECONOMY
PLACES NO PARTICULAR VALUE ON LOCALITY AS SUCH,
WHEN THE COST OF TRANSPORT IS SMALLER THAN THE DIFFERENTIAL IN PRODUCTION COSTS IN REMOTE MARKETS,
IMPORT/EXPORT WINS. MAKING TRANSPORTATION COSTS REFLECT THE DAMAGE TO THE ENVIRONMENT, WHICH DOES NOT AFFECT THE WORST SOURCES OF POLLUTION, WOULD PROBABLY ENHANCE LOCALITY BY REDUCING TRADE. BUT TRADE IS NOT MERELY ABOUT FINDING THE CHEAPESF SOURCE OF RUNNING SHOES, IT IS ALSO ABOUT HAVING SOMETHING RO EAT BESIDES MONOCULTURE OF YAMS OR CORN OR WHALE BLUBBER OR CACTUS FRUIT,
DEPENDING ON WHICH "VILLAGE MODEL"
YOU HAPPEN TO BE
STUCK IN
...
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