Buy local to save the planet? ‘Dead wrong’ says Johan Norberg

For years, there has been a push to buy local in order to be environmentally-friendly and to help the mom and pop shops in your community. Indeed, you can’t buy purchase an Apple computer that was manufactured in Biloxi, Mississippi, but you can still buy a locally-grown apple to be green, right?

You’re “dead wrong,” says Johan Norberg of the Free to Choose Network.

He briefly explains in the video embedded below that the production phase is far more responsible for C02 production than the transportation aspect. Moreover, what is not mentioned in the video is that big corporate farms have the equipment and machinery to be eco-friendly, while your standard, family-owned small farm mostly doesn’t.