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We know it, biofuels aren’t a sustainable solution as they take food from a billion hungry people. Now here is another fact that literally infuriates me : “(the) food wasted by the US and Europe could feed the world three times over.”
This isn’t entirely new as I already tackled the issue. What is new is the importance of this phenomenon on climate change as producing this food produces carbon dioxide and as the waste produces methane.
I believe we truly need a paradigm shift on food. I also think that if people knew how much time and resources it takes to produce food they would waste much less. Continue »
This is the catchy title of an article GOOD recently published. It is not entirely new to me as I previously wrote about it, but the data provided there undoubtedly has to be shared. Here goes the beginning of the article :
” When it comes to food, Americans are the undisputed champions of one thing: trash. We waste food in volumes that it defies the imagination. New York City alone has an annual surplus of about 50 million pounds of food.“
Wasting, whether it is food, energy, water or else is truly unsustainable. We have to change quickly if we want to achieve a more sustainable development. Continue »
For the sixth part of the series – see the previous articles on heating, electricity, water, transport and food – I would like to tackle waste in general. This is an important issue as still too much of the things we throw end up in the wild.
The concept known as three Rs is interesting in that regard. Indeed, reducing, recycling and reusing our stuff would provide many advantages societies to Nature, our societies and our economies.
As the economic crises multiply and people find themselves unemployed, a better waste management would prove to benefit us all. Continue »
For the fifth part of these series – see the previous articles on heating, electricity, water and transport – I would like to tackle food in general. This is an important issue for both the health and the environment.
At a time where weight issues keep on increasing – to the World Health Organization, there are globally over a billion people overweight and 300 million obeses – food is becoming an environmental issue because of climate change.
This is important as to the International Panel on Climate Change, agriculture accounts for a fifth of global greenhouse gases emissions. Continue »
By reading the RSS feed of the WWF I came across an information that I found staggering at a times where overfishing threatens globally our seas and oceans. (example: Bluefin tuna could disappear in 3 years)
To the organization : “Nearly half of the world’s recorded fish catch is unused, wasted or not accounted for”. This waste accounts for at least 38 million tonnes of fish each year.
For more details about this most worrying fact, please check out the press release or the full report Defining and estimating global marine fisheries bycatch.
By reading La Marguerite I came across a very disturbing fact : we throw each month a lot of food. And when I write we, I mean both Americans and Europeans.
This most disturbing fact – it concerns between a quarter and a third of the food we buy -occurs as in many less affluent countries there are riots of hunger.
I find it staggering that our societies have become so affluent that it can literally throw away tons of food each day. Continue »
