Stephen Budiansky, who wrote “Math Lessons for Locavores,” points out that the locavores want to see food corporations reduce the number of miles it takes for delivery trucks to transport food across different states. The locavores envision a sustainable society where more consumers are buying carrots from their neighbor’s farm rather than from a distant corporation. After all, are those consumers not saving the environment from collapsing into a permanent state of desolation? Not according to Budiansky. In fact, he blames consumers for using up as much petroleum as corporations.
