[P2P-F] internalising food costs, what impact?

Tue Oct 11 20:07:32 CEST 2011

thanks for the interesting discussion!

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Charles Eisenstein
<charles at panenthea.com>wrote:

>  yup, agree with all of this, very insightful. In the book I just take a
> couple examples of this kind of logic, but don't go into detail to establish
> the case. I think other people have already established quite well that our
> system depends hugely on hidden subsidies and externalized costs. I refer to
> that, but pretty much take it as already demonstrated.
> I think that when we accept the principle of the commons, then such
> proposals as these
>
>    Or if offshore
> drillers had to deal with fishing cooperatives that managed offshore
> waters as commons and took tort action against oil companies for
> threatening to hurt their livelihoods?
>
>  will become very attractive.
> This isn't communism here, this is just fairness. If you take something
> from everyone you should have to pay for it.
> Charles
>
>

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