globalisation and long-distance lifestyles?
Energy is cheap only because the price neglects to pay either the costs of preventing damage from waste or the costs of damage from waste (including climate change). Once these costs are included, via precycling insurance or any other way, long-distance transport will become less attractive. There would be less dependence upon energy inefficient transport such as aircraft and private cars and far greater provision of more energy efficient options such as shared/public transport and local activity. Precycling is no particular threat to globalisation; large scale corporate success need not be founded on large scale loss of resources.
