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		scythe on Nov 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet Palm oil is a great example of the Jevons paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox Vegetable oil was expensive and took a lot of land to produce, then the oil palm made it cheaper and produced more in less land. But now we spend more money on vegetable oil and cultivate more land than before.

emj on Nov 24, 2018 [–]

Thank you for that, interesting like branching before and after git (and all), if something is easy and effortless you do it more.

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