How much does eating locally-produced food help the climate problem? What are the other potential environmental and social benefits of eating locally-grown/produced food? Do you have a food garden in your school or at home? If not, do you want one?
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The Importance of Eating Locally Grown Food
Eating locally grown food helps the environment a lot. One thing I think people underestimate in terms of global warming is travel. Simply taking a round trip flight to another continent can add ~5000 kgs of carbon to the atmosphere, over 50% higher than what is considered a sustainable *annual* output, [and ships are even worse](https://grist.org/living/you-thought-pl … ise-ships/). [Although most food is transported in more carbon-efficient ways](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_miles), it still has an enormous environmental impact: The sheer amount of food transported by road means its carbon emissions are three times as much as food transported by plane. If everyone only ate food grown locally, we would drastically lower carbon emissions worldwide.