An argument, by Carolyn Fry

• Imported flowers have large carbon footprints.
• So don't buy imported flowers.
• But wait! Africans depend on the flower trade! They'll starve!
  
• The flower trade uses toxic chemicals too.
• Oh! We can probably do without the Africans in that case.

(From the Guardian, a couple of weeks back.)

Comments

[Julian H]

Come on, Bishop - everyone knows that the world's resources are allocated by Western commentators who have to make anguished decisions like this on behalf of the rest of us.