<
https://theconversation.com/fasting-is-a-key-part-of-ramadan-but-for-many-muslims-climate-change-is-making-food-scarce-all-year-225778>
"Every Ramadan, volunteers at Westall Mosque and OneSpace in Melbourne hold
free weekly
iftars (communal dinners to break the fast in Ramadan). This
year, volunteers say numbers are up.
To cut down on the resulting landfill, attendees are asked to bring their own
reusable food containers and water bottles. In dedicated bins, bottles and cans
are collected and recycled under the state government’s container deposit
scheme - adding A$12 to A$25 every weekend to each mosque’s coffers, volunteers
say.
Many of the attendees are international students from Indonesia or Malaysia.
Living away from their families, paying high tuition fees, and juggling
precarious work with studies, they represent a segment of Australian society
particularly hard hit by rising costs of living. These include a jump in food
prices stemming from global warming-induced crop failures.
This is a small example of a global problem. The way Muslims around the world
experience Ramadan is changing because of climate change, often for the worse."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
