In this modern country, having groceries, clothes, shoes or any other necessity is available to be delivered to you through online shopping websites including Amazon, Zappos, Walmart, Blue Apron, Uber Eats and many many more. Although these services are super helpful and an easy way to shop, they could be contributing a lot to the levels of CO2 in the country, but an article by NPR states that to home grocery deliveries might just be more environmentally friendly than multiple trips to the grocery store. Many individual motor vehicles produce a lot of CO2, and the more individual vehicles going to and from the store, the more CO2 produced. NPR concludes that if one truck passes through the neighborhood delivering the groceries then less CO2 is produced.

I very much agree that even though convenience is a high priority of today's society, the CO2 emissions that are being released through all the multiple trips of delivering food or clothing, is drastically increasing. Our society is so focused on having needs for themselves, they completely ignore the fact of how much carbon is being emitted into the air. Recent research has proved in 2016, transportation overtook power plants as the top producer for carbon emissions in the U.S since 1979. Before the online shopping revolution, the majority of deliveries were to stores and could be easily served with large trucks. However, today instead of trips to the grocery stores or the malls, we have resorted to door to door service, where trucks are being transported through neighborhoods. There is an idea to help the growing increase of CO2 from online shopping, which is to create electric trucks. However, the problem to this solution is the cost of electric trucks. Overall, the way our society has been given the opportunity to have anything they want with the click of a button is  truly amazing. However, we have to realize as nice as the convenience may be, the impact of online shopping has released more CO2 in the air than we can imagine.