RE: Climate change and nuclear power, part 2

We cart so much fluid around. Dishwashing detegrent. Laundry liquid. Oil, and so much more. So much demand for energy is just getting goods to where they are needed or used.

Optimisation of the supply chain, distributed manufacturing and all that goes with that reduces our need for energy to begin with.

I shouldn't need to eat an ice cream made in Italy in Australia (seriously, there's stuff in the freezer at my local supermarket that is made in Italy!) - I can't imagine the wasted energy to bring that to here, frozen all along the way!

The same thing could be manufactured locally at a lower energy expense, all in, compared to the energy inputs of manufacture and transport all the way across the world.