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Hannah Ritchie on Eating Local

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The Carbon Footprint of Transport Is So Small

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Most of your like soil or avocados are nearly always coming by ship and shipping actually has a very, very small carbon footprint. You're going to miss 10 to 20 times less CO2 than trucks per kilometer and 50 times less than flying. The domestic costs of the of that food item to get to your door or to the grocery nearby are quite a bit under often underestimated.

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