Imagine a world where food routinely gets shipped thousands of miles away to be processed, then shipped back to be sold right where it started. It sounds like a joke, but it's the world we live in now. Much of the trade that happens in the global economy is unnecessary, and detrimental to our efforts to curb carbon emissions.
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