Go on a low-carbon diet...

[c9]

Care about the environment? Then buy less fruits that travelled thousands of kilometres to get to your table! Think about the truck exhaust when you buy pineapples and bananas and macadamia nuts and coffee and the list goes on and on. Obviously just stopping won't happen, but just consider reducing. Locally-produced food and drink means less travel and less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

So sayeth

David Suzuki

I know that leapfish won't like this idea, but they suggest locally produced wines as one way to alter consumption...

Comments

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

Show me a way to make bananas and coffee in my backyard and I will *so* go for it. Tell ya what -- I'll only buy South American coffee, rather than the infinitely superior African or Pacific Rim stuff I *could* be buying, OK?

[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

(a) You are not on the East Coast! Damn Quebeckers. :P

(b) If you think it's unrealistic, you've already lost the battle. Globalization has lead us all to the "conclusion" that it would be impossible to live life in any way other than that to which we've become accustomed. Almost makes you wonder how we ever got by before the resources of the world were readily at our fingertips.

I love Suzuki's concept. I have a hard time applying it to my life, since the only thing I eat is Kraft Dinner. But I'm all for it in theory. :)

[c9.livejournal.com]

You're eating whole wheat Kraft Dinner right?

[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

With organic cheese powder.

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

If we followed that concept, a pound of coffee would cost the equivalent of half a year's salary. Which I'd never make, 'cos without coffee, I'd never make it to work in the morning.

You can't reverse globalization, so the only alternative is to make gobalization less corrosive to the environment.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Of course there are many good things about globalization, such as applying human rights beliefs to all humans, not just the ones in certain countries. But saying "less corrosive" means you're still OK with it being corrosive. :)

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

No -- just realistic. Humans are corrosive. Globalization is a human endevour, therefore, it too has to be corrosive to some extent.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Humans happen to be corrosive. Humans don't have to be. Nor does globalization, we've just been conditioned to believe it so.