Raising shipping costs increases food costs — doubling shipping causes 0.7% inflation. https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2022/03/28/how-soaring-shipping-co

Raising shipping costs increases food costs — doubling shipping causes 0.7% inflation. https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2022/03/28/how-soaring-shipping-costs-raise-prices-around-the-world https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2022/03/28/how-soaring... There are 13,000,000+ households in the US which face challenges having enough food, at least once during the year. https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-u-s/key-statistics-graphics/ https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo... When you propose a change that makes food less efficient to ship, you increase the number of people who struggle to feed their families — and make the challenge worse for those who already are struggling. What the person you’re replying to is saying is that you have to balance the benefits (fewer truck crashes) against the costs (more hungry people) — and that such a choice isn’t nearly as simple as shallow histrionics, about how we must spend money to save lives! I think your shallow false dichotomy, rather than engaging with the fact that economics also costs lives and causes human suffering, is exactly the problem.