More signs of upcoming food scarcity
I have been beating an obvious drum for a while: that climate change will drastically cut our food supply. Last summer Russia has had such a poor harvest that they cut off all grain exports—total harvest was a third less than normal. That’s a substantial cut, no? Drought was the problem, as I recall.
And, as we watch the climate change, without taking any effective action at all because oil and coal companies want to keep making money, we will watch world food supplies fall off a cliff. It will get extremely ugly: “slowly at first, then all of a sudden.”
A new study published last week in Science finds that the effects of climate change are already evident in farm yields. Among other things, the global production of maize is estimated to be about 3.8 percent lower than it would have been without warming — the equivalent of Mexico ceasing production of the crop.
I’m amazed that Congress is so placid in the face of this threat.
