I am looking forward to reading this book -- sounds really interesting. And I think that like so many things it's about making small steps. Just like if every American got a car that got just 3 to 5 miles more per gallon, we would reduce our fuel consumption by a huge amount, if everybody bought apples every other shopping trip instead of bananas, we would shift our fruit consumption from very long distance to pretty local. Everybody does not need to get 40 mpg for us to significantly reduce our dependence on gas, and everybody does not need to eat all local all the time in order to reduce our dependence on long-distance food. Yes, it would be great to get there eventually, but we have to crawl first. :) None of this has to be all or nothing -- it's much more about getting a lot of people to make small changes than about getting a very small number of people to make the enormous change of eating only local foods.
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Date: 2007-07-24 03:54 am (UTC)And I think that like so many things it's about making small steps.
Just like if every American got a car that got just 3 to 5 miles more per gallon, we would reduce our fuel consumption by a huge amount, if everybody bought apples every other shopping trip instead of bananas, we would shift our fruit consumption from very long distance to pretty local. Everybody does not need to get 40 mpg for us to significantly reduce our dependence on gas, and everybody does not need to eat all local all the time in order to reduce our dependence on long-distance food. Yes, it would be great to get there eventually, but we have to crawl first. :)
None of this has to be all or nothing -- it's much more about getting a lot of people to make small changes than about getting a very small number of people to make the enormous change of eating only local foods.