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Impacts of consumer choice on the environment
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Air miles / food milesFlowers
Perishable
Must have air freight
More carbon dioxide released
More impact on Global Warming
BUT … Kenyans say less GH Gas emission that if grown in heated greenhouses in Europe
DO / DON’T BUY KENYAN FLOWERS?
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LOCALLY GROWN MAY NOT LEAD TO LESS CARBON EMISSION.
Even allowing for extra transport Spanish tomatoes release much less carbon than those grown in heated greenhouses in colder countries
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Some foodstuffs are shipped not flown
US food emissions found 83% of carbon emissions in the food system result from food production, 5% from wholesaling and retailing food, and 11% from transporting it. SO BUY IT IF ITS SHIPPED!
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Pressure for low prices = intensive production Pesticide use in a
banana plantation (Ecuador) can be 20 times greater than the average on crops in MEDCs.
Pesticide exposure causes illness among workers and pollution of land, watercourses and aquifers, and a reduction in biological diversity.
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Irrigation – water stores dry upIn the 1960s, Aral Sea (between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) fishing was big business—ships like these brought in 50,000 tons of fish a year.
In the 1960s river water which normally flowed into the Aral Sea from the mountains was diverted to irrigate cotton and rice fields
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Subsistence Farmers pushed to marginal lands
Kenyan flowers 23% of GDP
150,000 employees
The industry is massively water intensive.
Subsistence farmers growing food
Pushed to more marginal land …
Not enough water - Soil erosion occurs – called DESERTIFICATION
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Food Waste – by retailers & consumers