The phrase "last mile" reveals an interesting civilizational blindspot since the consumption locus is actually the middle of the journey of anything. The endpoint is landfill or recycling locus. If you set consumption locus =0, you get 1st and -1st miles...
Carse makes this point more poetically in his riff on waste as antiproperty. I'm trying to actually come up with good general engineering handles on it beyond specialized lifecycle analysis that only environmental engineers do.pic.twitter.com/55qD1ikO8B
