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Rose
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Millions of roses get handed out on Valentine’s Day. But growing roses has an impact worse than many other crops. Start with climate change: most roses in the US and Europe are imported from warmer climes. All that flying and trucking adds thousands of metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Then there’s all the water needed to, well, water the flowers. And the runoff fouled by copious of pesticides needed to make the roses look perfect. There’s also the wildlife and workers poisoned by all that fumigation. Add to that habitat where floral plantations displace native forest and wetlands. Finally, there’s the refrigeration needed to keep those blooms fresh. The is often produced by burning fossil fuels, and the refrigerant gases also exacerbate climate change. A more sustainable and, possibly, more romantic is to go with flowers certified by outfits like Veri Flora, or even better, whatever flowers are in season locally.
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