http://theenergyladyuk.com/blog/pollution-health/burning-issue/ Save Energy Now. Tomorrow May Be Too Late. Think Global, Act Local Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:55:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://theenergyladyuk.com/blog/pollution-health/burning-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Sarahrchds Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:29:49 +0000 http://theenergyladyuk.com/blog/?p=44#comment-5 Absolutely right. Our cheap goods, of all kinds, are often at an unseen cost. How many air miles has all that fruit - Chilean apples, American grapefruit - done? Kiwi fruit uses more than its own weight in aviation fuel to get here from NZ. And how much are the grape-pickers or coffee-growers paid? Far too often we enjoy low costs at the expense of pollution and poverty elsewhere. Absolutely right. Our cheap goods, of all kinds, are often at an unseen cost. How many air miles has all that fruit – Chilean apples, American grapefruit – done? Kiwi fruit uses more than its own weight in aviation fuel to get here from NZ. And how much are the grape-pickers or coffee-growers paid? Far too often we enjoy low costs at the expense of pollution and poverty elsewhere.

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