locally grown

[kandrathe]

The organic, locally-grown movement is emblematic of the aesthetic, rather than pragmatic, side of environmentalism. It sounds good, and it doesn't work. This is one of the major reasons why a price on carbon is a major goal for reducing carbon footprints: anyone who engages in well-intentioned but wasteful practices will go bust. Ideas that actually save emissions, whether they are hippie-inspired or the calculated product of industrial analysts, will thrive.

Because what the developing world needs is a 50% to 100% hike in food costs to offset the artificial price of carbon added into the food supply chain (beyond the actual cost of the fuel used to grow, transport, etc.). Unless you want to exempt them, and then we can buy our grain on the black market from Mexico.