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Actually local increases emissions and congestion. Local means you grow food in places not really suitable for it, so you need extra energy to make that happen
by ars 2y ago
Actually local increases emissions and congestion.
Local means you grow food in places not really suitable for it, so you need extra energy to make that happen. Would like you like to grow tomatoes in a heated greenhouse, or out in the open?
Local is also smaller quantity, so instead of huge efficiencies you need small individual shipments. This increases congestion.
Local has some advantages in terms of community, but environmentally speaking? It's 100% bad.
- StockHuman 2y agoThat’s one way to define “local,” and in fairness to you, it is the most popular. But the other way of looking at local production - not unlike times before globalized agriculture - had one’s diet actually match the climate available. Perhaps tomatoes don’t grow where you are, but surely something else did: very few places were founded without an agricultural/fishing base. On a global scale, the huge (emissions) efficiency of loading a single enormous shipment of produce is only true on the receiving end, a number of farms far away all ran their own small deliveries to a depot for shipping at the start of the chain. There is no magic turbo-carrot-farm that harvests the world’s supply in one go.