Love Food Hate Waste: Food and our future


The Putrajaya mosque and other buildings are barely visible through the smog in this filepic from last year. Photo: The Star/Shafwan Zaidon

There is a great challenge facing us all: sustainability and food availability. These threats many not feel as immediate as China/US/Russia/Syria tensions and proxy wars, or as ominous as the continuing Middle East confrontations. However, the growing global population and diminishing planetary resources mean we really need to alter our behaviour.

In a TV interview at the beginning of this year, Global Chief Economist for UBS Global Wealth Management Paul Donovan warned of a looming disaster on the scale even greater than recent financial meltdowns.

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