Do Explosive Refrigerants Count As Environmental Protection ?
There are plenty of reasons for going to your local Farmer’s market- even urbane Harvard hosts one each summer. But saving the world from CO2 is not necessarily one of them — Basic Instincts informs us “The “local” label also says little or nothing about a product’s actual environmental friendliness” A resident of Sacramento, for instance, can take comfort in buying “local” rice, but it’s still likely to be rice grown in a heavily irrigated desert, at huge environmental cost. In the overall carbon footprint of a product, the cost of transport often turns out to be relatively trivial. For instance, a New Zealand study recently made the case that better conditions make lamb grown there and shipped to Europe four times more energy-efficient than home-grown European lamb…. As a way to fix global warming, fretting about where your salad was grown is like thinking you can win a war by calling your sauerkraut “liberty cabbage.” When will Greens apply this line of Quant analysis to the more
