Yes actually, if you understood economies of scale there's a lot of reasons why planting your own garden in your backyard is worse than having industrial farms. Similarly, one country being able to control all the pollution would be far better than spreading it out and having little to no locust of control.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23132579/eat-local-csa-farmers-markets-locavore-slow-food

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinero/2023/01/27/eat-local-if-you-want-but-not-for-climate-reasons/?sh=1bf904c65215

For some articles about farming. Now obviously, there are situations where you can make local manufacturing better, but that comes at a high cost.

Either way, the point is, your initial assumption is wrong and I hope you learned something.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We aren't talking about small scale manufacturing vs large scale. It's large scale either way. Your analogy doesn't work.

[–] Joncash2@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Sadly for the US is it small scale manufacturing. Which is kind of the problem. There's been so much reduction in US manufacturing capability that they are essentially small scale. Other people have already pointed that out. What I will extend though is technically this is what the US is concerned about. The whole point that the US government is trying to make is that it's a national security issue that the US only produces at such small scale. So not only is what the US saying is that they want to destroy the environment and spend billions to start to maybe create large scale manufacturing again. Is it worth it? I dunno, but that's what's being proposed. Kill the environment, stick with ICE vehicles so USA can still compete in large scale manufacturing. Thus, Biden is a hypocrite.