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JakobVirgil  ·  3987 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Against local food | MattBruenig | Politics

    First, charging for carbon emissions will solve the problem more comprehensively. Changes in consumer behavior can only go so far. In particular, if the local food movement manages to reduce carbon emissions in food production because it reduces fuel consumption, that will just free up the saved fuel to be used elsewhere. This is a problem that befalls a lot of these consumer-focused approaches to reducing fossil fuel consumption. Reducing demand will, in all likelihood, just cause the price of fossil fuels to fall, which will lead to others buying up and using the fuels for other purposes. So these kinds of micro reductions in carbon emissions do not reduce aggregate emissions; they just move them around.
this is stupid