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I was wondering when they'd come for coffee. Where I live it's not just coffee. Almost all veggies come from half a continent away. Supermarkets are always fil
by aszantu 4y ago
I was wondering when they'd come for coffee.
Where I live it's not just coffee. Almost all veggies come from half a continent away. Supermarkets are always filled up with exotic fruit from overseas.
Almost every city has a dozen dollar stores where almost all the stuff comes from China.
- mrpopo 4y agoTransportation of veggies is quite optimized and is almost never the biggest contributor to the carbon footprint of any food or drink product. Case in point here, looking at the graph, most of the footprint is in the coffee production and preparation, and 5-10% is attributed to transportation. It's almost alwys better to get tomatoes from a sunny southern region than to grow them in a heated greenhouse locally. Even better to eat seasonally, but then someone will shout "now they're coming for our tomatoes".
- nebula8804 4y agoHow did you guys live before industrialization? Because you understand that unless climate change is solved, the most likely end state for your locale is being forced by nature to go back to whatever you had before industrialization. The whole point is to avoid that end state. So they'll come for your coffee, they'll come for your cheap Chinese junk, or else you'll naturally lose it all anyway.
- whateveracct 4y agoEcofascism is the term
- Fricken 4y agoThe term to describe people who are working to destroy the planet, yes.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoThat's funny. I thought the purpose was to avoid living in a hyper Industrial dystopian Wasteland once nature collapses. I thank you ecological collapse is far more likely to lead to this outcome than widespread subsistence farming