l_camacho84

What are the alternatives to audible?

Yes for me this is also the case. The WIP on the Kanban is very important. Is not a question of deadlines, is more a question of doing as little as possible at the same time.

This is good news but sadly they don’t talk about transportation as normally they are not considered as a problem of the manufacturer.

Maritime and airplane transportation emissions not being considered in Paris agreement illustrate this problem.

Other thing is planned obsolescence. I wonder what is being made in the company to design products to last a lifetime.

The costs are tiny because right now they not internalize pollution and social injustice. Yes, “local” is not an end on itself but the same is true for “global”. Right now the cost of sending a banana to the other side of the world in a container is small because we are jeopardizing the future of the planet by not putting a price on CO2 emissions. Local food need to spend effort on Marketing because they are more expensive that monocultures, and the reason for this is that monoculture prices benefit from subsidies and not paying externalities. We need to fix this for the sake of future generations and if we do this local goods would be much more competitive and so much more effective in marketing.

I agree, we can apply robotics but always thinking in small scale farming, otherwise the gains in production will be lost in distribution. Sadly right now we are not paying for externalities of distribution so there is no incentive for thinking in small distributed economies.

There are more benefits of thinking small. We are creating a big interdependent and fragile economy. It’s seems robust but a black swan event - as Nassin Taleb would name - can provoke global disaster. Small scale economies are less exposed to this.

Every time I read about farm mechanization I remember the Ralph Borsodi work on the book "The Distribution Age". Every efficiency you gain in production scale you tend to lose in distribution efficiency.

The key to sustainable farming is a decentralized small scale. This is the only way to keep transportation, marketing and preservation of the goods low.

We don't need to scale up if the developed countries agree to scale down consumption. Reducing commuting (working from home when possible), have taxes on airplane travel, tax goods that come unnecessarily from far away, invest in durability. This is not scyfy solutions sorry to disappoint

The best negative carbon tech that exists are trees and plants. It's not future tech it's already here!

How about just building less houses? Even China has overproduction of houses. All comes down to our economic paradigm where we need to produce infinitly otherwise we colapse

Yes, and in the last 50 years carbon emissions have skyrocketed, while wages have stagnated. We are depleting the resources of the planet and polluting at an unbearable pace. We have to change the economy and protectionism for me can be a good measure. If protecting the environment or health is good, why is protecting the economy bad? What is the opposite of protecting? attack? If so, why does protecting something lead to a trade war? should not it be to attack an economy? This area is full of self-righteous words like "free market" or "trade war". We cannot question something that is free? And a war is something that has to be fought at all times? We need to see through this.

By reducing imports from China, China will need to invest in their local market too and by doing that they will need to improve chinese worker conditions.