I would love to force San Fransisco to ONLY buy food grown in San Fransisco.
Hey, why not?
I hear that homemade nuclear generators in Asia can now be installed in China cabinets....
What’s “local”? Within 5 miles of home? 10 Miles? 100 miles?
Let’s see any large city, Chicago or Glasgow, for examples, subsist only on what it can acquire “locally”.
As a concept, I have no problem with producing and consuming locally-sourced items, provided it is economically efficient.
Obviously, one can’t grow tomatoes in New York, in November, without a green house, however, one can grow tomatoes on their porch, deck, patio, balcony, etc, during the summer. The same would be true of lettuce and other types of produce.
Personally, I don’t see this as a solution for any grand problem, rather, it is an option for reducing personal dependence, where possible. If I don’t have to spend money buying lettuce and tomatoes during the summer, I can use that money elsewhere.
Also, let us not forget the Victory Garden.
If it makes economic sense, generally speaking, I am for it.
These people are like parrots squawking that it has to be local, sustainable, organic and farm to table. Which is fine until it’s not possible.
These people can live how they want to! Fine by me, and God bless them! However, quit telling me how to live! God blessed us with minds and the will to live better, grow more, and be more productive! That is what I choose!
I burn locally used tires on earf day.
Most people, especially Greenies and other lefty do-gooders, have no idea how reliant they are on petroleum generated electric and petroleum fueled transportation.
Greenies never stop to think how limited in variety their own diets would be if they practiced what they preached.
Imagine no more organic produce from farms hundreds, even thousands, of miles away trucked into thousands of towns and cities overnight, every night.
Imagine no more of their favorite exotic fruits flown in from foreign countries every day.
Imagine the limited variety of local vegetables available in most locations in the winter.
Imagine going back to the kind of diets common 100 years ago when you ate only what was in season locally, or what you personally canned the last time it was in season.
In large cities most children could not get fresh milk. None could get fresh orange juice. In the winter fresh fruits and vegetables were not available. People in the Northeast, Midwest and Mountain States seldom saw an orange or other citrus fruit their entire lives.
Malnutrition was common. Food was much more expensive. People's life expectancy was shorter.
“He failed to offer advice on the sustainability of airplane flights from Scotland to Chicago.”
Most of these self serving idiots are light in their loafers. I’m sure he just floated over the Atlantic and made it to Chicago.
How long do you think it would take for the Greenies to start calling Americans racist greedheads for depriving those third world countries from one of their few sources of income? Faster than you can say AlGore.
“At Wheaton, a visiting professor from Scotland proposed that global warming could be stopped if people sourced food, energy, and other life essentials locally”
He could have skyped into the meeting. That would have said something. As it is, we notice when there algore types arrive in a limo, and travel globally.
I have a right to everything they do. Actually, I have a right to use all the resources I can pay for.
This is fodder for the useful idiots.
Global wealth redistribution is the goal.
How much did they have to pay this visiting prof to listen to that nonsense?
That's really not a bad outcome.
GO GREEN!