• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
    103·
    11 months ago

    simply because driving a car for 10 km to a farm for a bag of apples (or whatever) is a LOT worse per apple than the traditional container-on-ship->container-on-rail->semi-truck->local store supply chain which has a few times the fuel consumption of a car

    Uh. Do you think those semi trucks are bringing apples right into people’s homes? Guess how far the grocery store is from people’s houses lmao

    That argument only works if every citizen in the country lives in high density, transit enabled city cores.

    • azertyfun
      21·
      11 months ago

      IIRC the hypothetical scenario assumed you had a supermarket on your side of town (say 1 km) but had to to on the other side of town to get to a local farm (say 10-15 km). As a suburbanite this seems quite reasonable to me on both fronts.

    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
      12·
      11 months ago

      Or in a small walkable town. They exist. You don’t need a 100,000 people city to have easy access to apples.