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While I could believe that this is true, I would love to see some evidence to back up this claim. You would also need to account for the entirety of emissions,
by clay_the_ripper 8y ago
While I could believe that this is true, I would love to see some evidence to back up this claim. You would also need to account for the entirety of emissions, including, as a previous commenter said, other emissions involved in the supply chain.
- conception 8y agoIt's not true sadly. http://www.worldshipping.org/industry-issues/environment/air-emissions/carbon-emissions http://www.worldshipping.org/industry-issues/environment/air... If you go with a to of lamb for simplicity thats 10g/km. It's about 10km so 100,000g. The truck is like, let's go on the high end 100g/km and what, 100km? That's still only 10kg of co2. Unless of course I'm missing something.
- extrapickles 8y agoThe chart assumes you are moving 1 ton of material, so its 20kg of co2 to ship 1 ton of lamb 100km.
- roel_v 8y agoThe answer is, as usual, 'it depends'. There are journals full of people modeling things like this. What is sure though, is that the claim 'local is always better' is not true. But it's easy to attack absolutes because they're almost always wrong.