And how are they delivered to your door? By dromedary? Goats pulling a cart? Magic elves? In my neck of the woods, groceries are delivered by an immense van that burns more gas in one trip than my little Ford Focus does in four... and since it's an "industrial" vehicle, it's not held to as rigid of antipollution standards as my car.greaves said:
Perhaps if everyone on my street, or everyone in my neighborhood, had their groceries delivered, it would be more economical, but that's not the way it goes. Or if they delivered it the same day I ordered it, which none that I know of do... there's usually a two-day delay.
I do do a lot of my basic shopping online (though not groceries, because I can't plan when I'm going to run out of something enough in advance to order it and have it arrive when I need it), and everything is delivered to my house by ginormous non-aerodynamic smoke-belching mail trucks and UPS trucks... and schlepped across the nation, and also sometimes an ocean or two, via eighteen-wheel trucks and jet aeroplanes. Perhaps a supertanker or merchant liner is involved. Guzzle guzzle guzzle, spew spew spew. I just don't see how that makes enough of a difference to matter.
I think it's great that you're doing what you can to reduce pollution; and I am doing what I can. I could probably do more, as you could probably do more, as we could all do more. Every little bit helps; but only a little bit. The world isn't going to change overnight, it took us a couple of millenia to get into the state we're in; and it's certainly not going to change by being harangued and guilt-tripped.
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