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That would be a good outcome: less transportation means less pollution, plus redundancy in production, which is seriously needed.
by pmlnr 6y ago
That would be a good outcome: less transportation means less pollution, plus redundancy in production, which is seriously needed.
- Nasrudith 6y agoNot neccessarily for pollution. Efficency increases with larger sizes and that leads to it fulfilling broader areas. Larger manufacturing can afford more sophisticated forms of pollution control even if it is more concentrated.
- pmlnr 6y agoCould afford, not can. The sad truth is that in far asian prudoction, most don't.
- refurb 6y agoScale brings a lot of efficiencies. It can be more efficient and less polluting to sail a ship with 1000 tons of tomatoes from Mexico than have a local farm drive a few crates of tomatoes to the local farmer's market in his 1970 Ford pickup.