billions of dollars have funneled into conservation over the past year. many people in Washington DC are pushing and advocating for climate smart practices, and want to move towards perennial agriculture.

there's a fundamental flaw though, central planning.

I've had front row seats to these efforts and I've seen how ill prepared not only the government is to deal with this funneling of money, but the people who are implementing these projects.

Farmers and ranchers are good, honest people who are often 4th or 5th generation people on the land. They're dealing with inflation of their purchasing power, not at the rate consumers are - but almost double the rate. When inflation spiked, producers were hit extremely hard. This forced many to heighten their already high time preference.

perennial agriculture and resilient food systems take a long time to establish. once the trains going though, look out, because their abundance is uncanny. hundreds of thousands of calories can be produced on a single acre with stackable functions. it's the same thing we see in nature, but under human management.

these government programs are largely a giant failure, with some small victories and stories of people who have been able to get their resilient low time preference food systems off the ground. my hope is that Bitcoin incentivizes more of these low time preference growing decisions, because we need a transition - #bitcoin for every farm

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