How Reducing Food Waste Could Ease Climate Change

As a class or part of an additional assignment, read the following article and discuss the relationship between food waste and climate change.

“Producing the food we throw away generates more greenhouse gases than most entire countries do…” (National Geographic, 2015)

Great supplement to Lesson 1 to teach students about world population growth

Source:
Smith, R (January 22, 2015). National Geographic. How Reducing Food Waste Could Ease Climate Change. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150122-food-waste-climate-change-hunger/
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