Leave it to the environmentalists to spoil the fun.
Sending roses to your sweetheart leaves a significant “carbon footprint.” 80% of the roses for Valentine’s Day are shipped in from Columbia. Columbia relies heavily on amigos buying flores.
SUNY ESF Environmental Studies Professor Jack Manno says, “It’s a tremendous amount of energy, pesticides.”
Manno says the negative can overshadow a day all about love. “It’s kind of muddied by the fact that there’s a whole lot of thoughtlessness on the other end.”
Every day this week between 20 and 25 cargo planes leave Colombia to provide Americans with their flowers.
Those planes are not landing in CNY. They typically end up in southern Florida. From there the flowers hit the roads. They’re loaded up into tractor trailers to make it all across the country.
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All of that fuel adds up. Carbonfund.org estimates those trips put 9,000 metric tons of CO2 into the air.
Boy, those environmentalists can sure be party poopers! What are we going to send for Valentine’s Day, a card that says, “Go pick your own flowers today.”
Besides, 30% of the year’s business in Columbia depends on our flowers. What, we gonna deprive those poor flower pickers in South America, jobs that “Americans won’t do”? :-p
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