How can anyone take these people seriously?

Question

The latest craze in the environmentalist movement? The tangerine growers just switched their vote.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0707/No_tangerines_for_you.html

Answer 1

I do not think we can take them seriously. I agree with one of the founders of Green Peace, who left the group after they started trying to ban chlorine, you cannot ban a naturally occurring element. I would extend it to say you cannot stop people in cooler climates from eating citrus fruit (they will all get scurvy).

Answer 2

People who are extremely concerned about climate change take all of it seriously. John Edwards doesn't have a policy on interstate trucking of fruit because he doesn't want to increase food prices for poor and struggling families.

Growers know that transportation costs are increasing and will continue to increase. The environmentalists are very unlikely to get any legislation passed which surtaxes the long distance shipment of agricultural products. The biggest jumps in the cost of transport will occur as the US continues to interfere in the middle east. And if the US bombs Iran and our supply of middle east oil will be cut, and we'll all be eating locally grown.