BIG FOOT.

Michael Specter discusses the idea of "food miles" in his article Big Foot. "Food miles" can be defined by Specter as, " the distance a product travels from the farm to your home"(276). I, too, feel like it's not so much the pollution that is caused by the factories making the product, but how the product is transported to us. The trucks that are transporting these products release so much unnecessary waste which is affecting our climate. Not many people take into consideration the process that is transporting these products. They just go to the store and purchase them and think nothing of it. But have you ever wondered what is behind the scenes? What those trucks that are delivering the products to us are really releasing? The ones you see on the highway and are disgusted by the black smoke coming out of their engines. Yep, those ones. I completely agree with John Elkington’s claim: “We are in an era of creative destruction” (292). I do feel like a lot of companies will start falling apart because they will not be able to deal with the change. The whole, "Go Green", idea will not be very helpful to some companies. There will be a change coming into play and it will be up to companies to react in a responsible and sufficient way.

I do in some ways feel personally responsible for global warming as a consumer. I understand that there is a lot of behind the scenes things that we as consumers are not shown. I am guilty to just going to a grocery store and purchasing an item and not thinking anything of it. I hope that things will someday soon improve so that it will not be true that I am indeed personally responsible for global warming. I feel guilty, but at the same time SO many things can be held responsible for global warming. It's like when you are watching the news and you hear that this and this and this are now causes of cancer or another disease. If you listened to all of those things that are causes now, you would live in a box. The way I see it, I can try my best to make things better, to make this environment improve, but it will never be perfect, because nothing is. There will always be causes still out there affecting global warming, we just need to try to improve the environment the best we can as individuals.