“While it has its environmental flaws, it also has some green credentials. As we’ve seen, **if we were to get rid of plastic tomorrow, the world would waste more food**. “That **food waste has a massive environmental cost**: all of the farmland used to make it, the water used to irrigate the soil, the greenhouse gases emitted for food that would not even reach our mouths. ([Location 3616](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=3616))” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[food-waste]], [[food-production]], [[deforrestation]], [[water-security]], [[emissions]], [[climate-change]], [[plastics]] **Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]