Comment by zeroCalories

I've always been wary of the permaculture community. Firstly, a lot of the things advanced by them are simply not scalable to the entire human race. They will say stuff like "it's practically free to have all this free food I grew on my lawn", while ignoring the massive amount of labor they put in, the waste product that they managed to scavenge, and the infrastructure they pay little to no taxes for. It's not even clear to me that "Big Age" is even a bad thing, seeing that their massive economies of scale allow them to produce more for less(money, environmental impact) than smaller farmers. Failure to realize this lead to the dumb memes about how global supply chains are supposedly bad, without realizing that having many small factories around the world would actually be more environmentally harmful than shipping products to where they can best be processed. I'm sympathetic to fears about long term sustainability and skepticism about globalism, but I generally don't like the type of stuff they advocate for. I generally agree with calls for increased regulation and a reduction in waste though.