Convenience gone mad - a root cause of climate change

“Convenience” is among those things at the root of climate change.

The much sought after convenience comes at an alarming cost and that is mostly fossil fuel powered energy and then an  equally alarming amount of waste; a waste that has been both environmentally costly to produce and then dispose of.

An example of the wasteful convenience came recently in America when a woman noticed individually packed, peeled oranges for sale in an “upscale” supermarket.

The founder of Clean Up Australia Day has labelled the sale of packaged peeled oranges in the United States as "convenience gone mad".

Twitter user Nathalie Gordon shared a photo of the peeled fruit she spotted online when the new concept was brought to the shelves of US upscale supermarket, Whole Foods.

Her tweet about the skinless citrus has since gone viral, attracting more than 80,000 retweets.

Responses ranged from those who were outraged by the wastage and deriding the concept as "stupid" while others said they liked the convenience.

But Clean Up Australia Day founder Ian Kiernan said the payoff for convenience was not worth ruining the environment.

Read the ABC story - “Packaged peeled oranges 'convenience gone mad', Clean Up Australia Day founder says.”