21 Aug 08
Originally posted by uzlessI don't know what "better for society" means, but I do know that stopping people from growing, harvesting, selling or buying flowers is wrong.
Is the flower industry, and buying cut flowers particulary, a huge waste of resources or is it beneficial to society as a whole?
21 Aug 08
I would keep the flower industry but ban moving food/ icecream trucks. These trucks are excessively polluting by consuming fuel all day as well as ringing bells (additional noise polution) plus they generally provide llow quality and low nutrition foods (we have enough obese people on the earth)
21 Aug 08
Originally posted by AThousandYoungThe flower industry has a very large carbon footprint, uses land that could be used for farming/natural vegetation, requires the flowers to be put on trucks which use oil/pollute/congest roads.
I don't know what "better for society" means, but I do know that stopping people from growing, harvesting, selling or buying flowers is wrong.
The flowers will typically last only a few days and then get thrown in the garbage and release vast amounts of stored carbon as they decompose.
The only real "benefit" to society from the flowers grown commercially is that they tend to "pretty" up a room at a wedding or funeral or on your kitchen table at valentines day.
21 Aug 08
Originally posted by uzlessYou sir are a Ditz.
The flower industry has a very large carbon footprint, uses land that could be used for farming/natural vegetation, requires the flowers to be put on trucks which use oil/pollute/congest roads.
The flowers will typically last only a few days and then get thrown in the garbage and release vast amounts of stored carbon as they decompose.
The only real "be ...[text shortened]... nd to "pretty" up a room at a wedding or funeral or on your kitchen table at valentines day.
GRANNY.
21 Aug 08
Originally posted by uzlessI love getting given flowers, they brighten up my day.
The flower industry has a very large carbon footprint, uses land that could be used for farming/natural vegetation, requires the flowers to be put on trucks which use oil/pollute/congest roads.
The flowers will typically last only a few days and then get thrown in the garbage and release vast amounts of stored carbon as they decompose.
The only real "be ...[text shortened]... nd to "pretty" up a room at a wedding or funeral or on your kitchen table at valentines day.
How do you rate cheap production things in compassison as their cost to the Earth I wonder? You know what I'm talking about don't you?- they are made by childern real cheap sold in the poundland/ dollar stores. Did you know those kids are locked in and actually not only pay for hte privillage of working there but also for their board. The £20 a month dosen't nearly reach thier families. That human cost for things which, in my experience go in the bin, must be higher hten the carbon cost you've caluclated.
21 Aug 08
Originally posted by uzlessThe CO2 released at decomposition were absorbed from the atmosphere when the flower was growing - so these two processes are carbon neutral.
The flower industry has a very large carbon footprint, uses land that could be used for farming/natural vegetation, requires the flowers to be put on trucks which use oil/pollute/congest roads.
The flowers will typically last only a few days and then get thrown in the garbage and release vast amounts of stored carbon as they decompose.
The only real "be ...[text shortened]... nd to "pretty" up a room at a wedding or funeral or on your kitchen table at valentines day.
I think the use of land for growing flowers is neglible compared to major grain sorts.
It is however very energy intensive, for several reasons :
Usually grown in greenhouses, usualy a long and delicate transport.
But if this is the problem, should your issue then not be with how we value (tax) energy consumption.
21 Aug 08
Originally posted by uzlessI think it is valuable to society in the same way barbers are valuable.
Is the flower industry, and buying cut flowers particulary, a huge waste of resources or is it beneficial to society as a whole?
E.g. no one would die if their service disappeared,
they are not providing anything that people could not produce them self (maybe not as good, but still),
But a lot of people think that their service make the world a more pretty place.