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It’s posts like these that show the fallacious thinking behind most climate change policy. He’s taking the position of an overbearing parent telling the child t

It’s posts like these that show the fallacious thinking behind most climate change policy. He’s taking the position of an overbearing parent telling the child to clean their plate, then explaining that it’s not enough “we need to do more.” No mentions of the relative climate impacts of food wastage. No mentions of the economic drivers behind food wastage - obviously producers would rather sell food than waste it and have a strong profit incentive. So food wastage must be caused by either subsidies (necessary for security reasons) or production ones (for instance it may be that processes creating some amount of spoilage consume fewer resources - and even less greenhouse gases- than ones that don’t). I cannot take the author seriously.

morsch 3y ago
It's 8-10% of global emissions, so pretty significant - even a tenth of that is a lot. And relatively little food is wasted during production (though it's the part with the most uncertainty), most food is lost at the end of the chain, with the consumer. At least in Germany, and probably other wealthy countries. Why? Why not, food is cheap, though not as dirt cheap as it used to be. Germans spend about a tenth of their income on food, Africans 70%. There's little incentive for people here not to waste it beyond moral obligations. https://food.ec.europa.eu/horizontal-topics/farm-fork-strategy/food-loss-and-waste-prevention_en https://food.ec.europa.eu/horizontal-topics/farm-fork-strate...