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Let’s begin by admitting - and causing our legislators to admit - that transferring production to China and SE Asia is not global reduction of carbon footprint. On the contrary it creates sustainability issues, energy and supply chain dependence and political chains with bad actors.

The tribulations of Germany is evidence enough.

Independent sustainability requires a cost that we must bear and we must ibis its our investment institutions carry the load with our capital. Done properly the initial high entry cost will deliver low annual charges and local supplies of pretty well all we need.

Think of it as 19th Century independence in a tough 21st Century world. Malfeasant actors will be swiftly made visible and the good guys will not continue to shoulder the Climate Change burden for the obvious delinquents.

Rewilding can thrive only where vertical agriculture has been accepted as a need not a luxury. Let’s source from 10 not 1000km away and savour seasonal crops not the world’s bounty at too high a climate cost.

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