Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Global balderdash
So apparently Mrs. Edwards is going to "sacrifice" herself by not eating (nor, presumably, buying) tangerines in order to avoid not-local fruit and therefore save carbon emissions excess that would result from transporting fruit (presumably from far, far away). Are there no locally grown tangerines? And what if zillions of us harkened onto the same idea? What would happen to the income for the people in the country/ies that export tangerines? Does the well-being of second, third and fourth world people matter less than wooing global warming voters? And does she (or even we as a whole entire nation) consume so many tangerines that it would make a carbon emission difference?
Laura's post on this mentions a couple of other points worth mentioning, ideas that lurk behind the whole eat-locally-grown-food topic, such as ever-encroaching nannyism and increasing taxes on various food items to cover carbon emissions costs. Who determines where those tax revenues go, however? I bet the go-ahead-and-increase-taxes-on-carbon-intensive-foods people wouldn't like their added monies to pay for things like the war in Iraq, now would they?!
Laura's post on this mentions a couple of other points worth mentioning, ideas that lurk behind the whole eat-locally-grown-food topic, such as ever-encroaching nannyism and increasing taxes on various food items to cover carbon emissions costs. Who determines where those tax revenues go, however? I bet the go-ahead-and-increase-taxes-on-carbon-intensive-foods people wouldn't like their added monies to pay for things like the war in Iraq, now would they?!
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| posted by jau at 9:08 AM
— at 8:44 PM, July 26, 2007:
| posted by jau at 9:08 AM
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— at 8:44 PM, July 26, 2007:
I think it was Dr. Laurence J. Peter (you know his Principle) who said "An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance."
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