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According to this people: https://www.unep.org/thinkeatsave/get-informed/worldwide-food-waste https://www.unep.org/thinkeatsave/get-informed/worldwide-foo... ab
by otrahuevada 5y ago
According to this people: https://www.unep.org/thinkeatsave/get-informed/worldwide-food-waste https://www.unep.org/thinkeatsave/get-informed/worldwide-foo... about a third of the food produced is thrown away along with half the water used to produce it.
Strikes me as an obviously improvable thing, as long as we're as a species capable of reining in the market forces at play.
But then again, we as a community don't seem to able to stop a couple hundred maladaptive nerds from using downvotes as a "me no likey" button, so there's that.
- nyokodo 5y ago> as long as we're as a species capable of reining in the market forces at play. A better phrase would be “reining in the perverse incentives at play” as government is just as prone to give in to perverse incentives or regulatory capture that promote waste.