The small stuff bioaccumulates and fucks with your endocrine system.
If you have kids, one of the best things you can do for them is work towards the dismantling of Western civilization and establishment of a permaculture-based society.
If you have kids, one of the best things you can do for them is work towards the dismantling of Western civilization and establishment of a permaculture-based society.
It would take less time and result in less suffering if you just shot them now.
So if large numbers of people farmed by hand we’d actually be able to feed more people, but the trade off is far lower output of other industrialized goods and services.
Another example is starting virtually all seedlings inside and then transplanting, which virtually all market gardens do. That gives a head start to your plantings. But of course again it’s labor intensive.
A good summary can be found in page 21 and following of the book How Asia Works (which can be found online: https://delong.typepad.com/files/studwell.pdf).