The impact of global warming felt by humanity through extreme climate change is about 30 times more than what it was earlier. Major incidents in recent times which cannot go without mention include the 2025 LA Forest Fires and 2024 Nepal landslides. Climate change – a relentless concern that cannot go ignored!!
The infographic below sums up its impact and the choices to be made by humankind.
FOOD WASTE MANAGEMENT AND RESPONSIBILITIES
To make any choice, firstly we need to understand our responsibilities. As per the studies, the food waste is one of the major contributors of methane emission into the atmosphere.
Cut down to peep into our kitchens, the question that bothers every individual today is– if the onion in its natural sense do water our eyes or is it the water that pours in the form of feelings for tons of onions getting wasted. A million-dollar question that needs an insightful response.
Most of our supermarket’s outlets sell bagged onions with the proud sense of premium quality attached to it. Ironically, while using the vegetables, half the layers of the onions end up in the garbage for its rotten quality. No, it is not another complain about tall promises that fall flat. It is to introspect how necessary it is to educate ourselves about the food waste and its implications.
Thanks to the wake concern for climate change and global warming that obligates us to fulfil our social responsibility of keeping the earth green. Many social awareness campaigns in our educational institutions, NGOs and other group gatherings are common. Appreciatively, many likeminded responsible groups are coming forward and taking initiative to talk about climate change and its implications.
Food waste being one among them is dealt with vigorous ease. However, it is a stereotyped idea that young people are the primary contributors of food waste because of their whimsical food choices.
Are youngster or per se consumers can only be held accountable for food waste?
For instance, the story of the singled-out condition of rotten onions discussed earlier in the article. The onions get wasted in the transit or in the storage facilities itself before it reaches consumers. This makes us to infer that the problem of food waste not only with the consumers but deeper; it is in the process of food reaching from source to plate the waste is maximum. Like the onus of not wasting food lies with every individual, it should also go much deeper into the system of production, storage and distribution of the vegetables and raw products.
Therefore, it is important to reposition the question and also the awareness campaigns re-designed with an aim to tackle the root cause to maintain the food waste management systems the root cause and deal with the food waste management strongly yet effectively.
INTERDISCIPLINARY TEACHING AND LEARNING TO PROMOTE AWARENESS
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