The Interruption by Chandran Nair

Americans waste up to 60% of their food when it's on their plates. In Sub-Saharan Africa, it's 5%. So we don't have a food shortage issue, we have a wastage and distribution problem.

One of the scarcest commodities of our time is intellectual honesty.

This was a huge decision - in the space of the last 2 months, 20,000 wildlife farms have been closed down across China.

A country that can't feed its own people in this new era is essentially exposed to the greatest possible risk

The fault comes when people believe the law is a tradeable commodity, that it can be bought and sold for personal or commercial gains. 

Investment conference on climate change has a silent contract between the audience and speaker: that neither party will suggest anyone in the room is to blame. They're prisoners to an existing mantra that sugar-coats climate change with "win-win" scenarios. Frankly, this is an abdication of responsibility and denial. 

Cyclone Fani affected 10 million people in India, but only 89 were killed. The 1999 Odisha cyclone killed over 10 thousand.

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