Hot Houses?? Is This really the answer??

I Found this image in a book on my book shelve ‘Britain from above’ and it made me think of our recent discussions in class. This image was in the a section titled ‘the future’ with this quote beside it ‘As Britons become more conscious of their impact on the environment, the issue of ‘food miles’ - the amount of energy used up in transporting non-seasonal foods from hot climates to our supermarket shelves - is having an increasing effect on our agriculture. Consumers expect out-of-season produce but they want it home-grown, which means that farmers are increasingly looking at ways to extend the season of native crops, and grow non-native crops, using poly tunnels, greenhouses and hothouses. Blue fields of hothouses, like this one in North Kent, are likely to become an increasingly common sight.’ I personally think this is wrong. Ok yes they’ve got the idea that we need to cut down on the air miles but with greenhouses?? NO!! From this quote it made me think hang on all this time I was thinking so if we get people producing the there own food... ‘Closing the loop as such we would be on the right lines for improvement. But no the problem is actually the fact that people want out of season foods?? Bizarre to me, surely in the modern world we live in people should understand that it’s just something that isn’t meant to happen and is just human greed.

Ian Harrison: foreword by Andrew Marr, Britain from above, 2008, Mondadori, Italy.