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Then why aren't you pushing the "grow your own food" mantra rather than the "get rid of fossil fuels" mantra. We wouldn't need such volumes of liquid fuels if not for industrial agriculture and transportation of food. That seems like much lower hanging fruit than eliminating fossil fuels.

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How is it lower hanging fruit? If people move out into the country, then non-food goods will have to be transported to them instead. You're just swapping one problem for another.

You can grow surplus food in the yard of a single family dwelling. No one has to move anywhere.

This is like suggesting the solution to plastic pollution is recycling and reduction by individuals. You can't regulate your way to changing people's behavior, but you can regulate away the source of the problem.

Individual action isn't the solution to a systemic problem, because there's more incentive to cause the problem than to fix it. Individual action requires time, money and effort on behalf of the individual, whereas the ones causing the problem have financial incentive to continue causing it, in greater amounts.

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