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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Every week I drive to a vast Costco miles from my house where I buy at the same time food storage containers to put the food in that I buy already in food grade storage containers we happen to call 'packaging' I bring vast amounts of food home to put in a fridge 4 times the size of a fridge in most of the world, a fair chunk of which ends up tucked up in the back out of sight and eventually gets thrown away, I have a wholly seperate plastic tub to throw away the plastic containers we call packaging for products my mother would get wrapped in some newspaper 40 years ago, of course my mum would buy only enough food for a day's meal on the way home form work and for much of my young life we neither had nor needed a fridge.
We could probably quarter the energy consumption of Canada just by changing the way we live back to what life looked like 50 years ago
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Easily. And anyone could choose to do that, but essentially nobody does.