"For years I’ve battled with this personal dilemma: **being an effective environmentalist has often made me feel like a fraud**. ([Location 4645](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=4645)) "I know that my way of eating is low-carbon. Microwaves are the most efficient way to cook, local food is often no better than food shipped from continents away, organic food often has a higher carbon footprint, and packaging is a tiny fraction of a food's environmental footprint while often lengthening its shelf life." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[counter-intuitive-thinking]], [[food-emissions]], **Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]