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Comment by mattmaroon

People like that never know. They don’t know how the system works, they’re just pretty sure it’s bad. You can argue with them but there’s no point.

We have 8 billion humans alive, who mostly all want to stay alive and keep eating food. We got to 8 billion entirely because of modern agriculture. But, they are sure, we really don’t need it, we can all just eat local joe farmer’s tomatoes. Nevermind that it’s seasonal and more expensive (and who doesn’t want to can all their food in summer, and who doesn’t have unlimited time and money to devote to food?) we’ll all be just fine.

It’s the same with PFAs. They think they just do nothing that can’t be easily replaced, but if you ask them what those PFAs do (must do something if there are that many of them) or how else you’d accomplish those tasks, they’re not quite sure other than they know we should just ban them all tomorrow and everything will be ok.

It’s easy to criticize a system you don’t understand and assume it’s all just rigged against us.

parent mattmaroon 2 years ago

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