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Yes, but generally those will average out, and other than carbon emissions the environmental impact tends to get pretty well priced into the end product because
by avar 9y ago
Yes, but generally those will average out, and other than carbon emissions the environmental impact tends to get pretty well priced into the end product because it tends to be more land or resources that are required.
I put "carbon emissions" in parentheses there because the reason for this "buy local" fallacy to begin with is because people intuitively assume that it's the transportation of the good that makes all the difference, when the reality is that that's just 1/10 of the cost.
The environmental impact of the transportation is almost exclusively carbon emissions.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> other than carbon emissions the environmental impact tends to get pretty well priced into the end product because it tends to be more land or resources that are required. No, most of the environmental impacts of agricultural productions besides carbon emissions are still externalities, usually time-shifted, that aren't priced into the product.