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Global Food Waste: The Dumbest Problem

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Food is the basic necessities of humans. Everyone loves food, it is central not only to our survival but also to our cultures. Although, we love food, we are also wasting it. Food Waste and Lost Food waste is considered to be edible food that is not eaten or tossed away. Food lost occurs at different point, particularly the food that is lost in the supply chain between the producer and the market. This can happen during handling, storage or transportation. We are tossing out around 1.3 billion tones of food into trash. According to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization, an estimated 1/3 of all food produced globally was lost or wasted every year.  Contributor to Climate Change When we picture the stuff that are hurting our planet, we think of pollution from vehicles, oil spills, plastics, etc.  We don't really think about the food we throw away. All these wasted foods  an environmental impact. As mentioned above each year one-third of all the food the worl...

Coronavirus, COVID-19: Common Pitfalls

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Going back to history of outbreaks, World has faced about three global flu pandemics which have caused millions of deaths in 1918, 1957 and 1968. In these outbreaks, two of them are originated in Asia. The one in 1918, Spanish Flu, consider as the grandfather of all outbreaks. Now in 2020, the Corona virus, COVID-19 has been the dominating topic in all news and social media over a month. One of the reasons for the spread of the virus is Urbanization. Today, around 55 percent of the world’s population is living in cities or urban areas with closer proximity to each other. When we notice, the virus spreads more rapidly in countries with strong central government such as China (Wuhan), Italy, Japan and South Korea. Urbanization makes easier and faster to travel, migrate from one place to another for humans as well as the viruses. The next few reasons are excessive optimism and over confidence. As of today, the number of COVID-19 cases recorded is about 150,000 and deaths are abou...

Accepting and Correcting Mistakes Decides our Stature!

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Everyone makes mistakes; possibly we could be making serious mistakes in our life. But what is beautiful in life is it allows us to correct those mistakes. When I started to write, like most of the children I use to start with slate and the chalk. I was very happy to write or scribble something in the slate, because it was easy and also I was able to correct my mistakes. Then I moved to paper and pencil, which I felt little difficult to correct my mistakes. Then for the first time I got a pencil with a rubber, an eraser behind. This makes my work simpler in self-correction. Then I started using pen, I would try to erase the mistake before anyone could see it. I tried so hard to my best to erase my mistake. I use chalk to clean, but it later re-appeared. Again, I try using saliva; it worked, but only to leave holes in my books. I was caught by my teacher for being appalling dirty.   I explained this incident to my mother; she calmed me down and kindly replied, “Anytime you ...