The spread of refrigeration in China has positive and negative externalities that relate to household diets, greenhouse gases and transport and home waste.
What we ship things in makes a difference. Take the banana, for example. In 1876, at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, the banana was a delicacy (and very black). Millions of bunches could only be sent to U.S. shores if they…
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