World Environment Day (‘WED’) is celebrated every year on 5 June to raise global awareness of the need to take positive environmental action.
Several functions being organised on Wednesday to raise awareness about environmental protection on the occasion of world environment day, danger of Global warming looms large as carbon content reaches all time high.
The theme for this year’s World Environment Day celebrations is Think.Eat.Save.
Think.Eat.Save is an anti-food waste and food loss campaign that encourages you to reduce your foodprint.
This year’s campaign rallies to take action from your home and then witness the power of collective decisions you and others have made to reduce food waste, save money, minimise the environmental impact of food production and force food production processes to become more efficient.
If food is wasted, it means that all the resources and inputs used in the production of all the food are also lost.
In fact, the global food production occupies 25% of all habitable land and is responsible for 70% of fresh water consumption, 80% of deforestation, and 30% of greenhouse gas emissions. It is the largest single driver of biodiversity loss and land-use change.
Making informed decision therefore means, for example, that one purposefully select foods that have less of an environmental impact, such as organic foods that do not use chemicals in the production process.
Choosing to buy locally can also mean that foods are not flown halfway across the world and therefore limit emissions.
As the saying goes ‘better late than never ‘- it is time that mankind desperately need to start performing their task to reduce the disaster risk and save the environment , otherwise, the outcome would be fatal.