Newly planted rice saplings have been underwater since July after torrential rain battered northern India, with landslides and flash floods sweeping through the region.
Last month, India, which is the world’s largest exporter of rice, announced a ban on exporting non-basmati white rice in a bid to calm rising prices at home and ensure food security. India then followed with more restrictions on its rice exports, including a 20% duty on exports of parboiled rice.
The move has triggered fears of global food inflation, hurt the livelihoods of some farmers and prompted several rice-dependent countries to seek urgent exemptions from the ban.
I wonder, what will be the big event that will change the world pespective on climate change?
People are aware, but they are not really worried. I think is very difficult make a transition to a ecofriendly way of life, mostly because of the grow factor, if someone use less efecient production models, they will lose profit.
Anyway I hope we get really smart with solutions soon otherwise get used to the old feudal ways.
I really want to be wrong but I think climate change will never as respected as it should, the disasters that come after will probably just be blamed on any minority that’s available at that moment.
Again I hope I’m wrong.
The world needs a climate insurance market. A better climate is worth something to everyone - we need to coordinate on funding a defense. And it’ll have to be p2p because the people we’re defending against won’t like that.
Just a reminder that this is the result of the greenhouse gases emitted a generation ago, and that since we went from 355ppm to 420ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. The war in Ukraine and global food shortage is a blip in what’s to come.
I can completely understand why India has made the choice to ban rice exports, because they’ve got to put their first priority on keeping their own people fed. But it’s making the whole global food situation worse.
I keep having this sinking feeling we’re going to experience something like the Bronze Age Collapse - part of the reason all the Bronze Age societies collapsed so suddenly wasn’t just the Sea People, it was that they were all so interconnected trade-wise that when one society collapsed, all of them did because supply chain links snapped. I feel like climate change is our current-day “Sea People,” only so much worse.
We really ought to be strengthening our supply networks. And it’s really frustrating that we’re not.
We already saw a glimpse of what can happen under covid lockdown. And that was a controlled shutdown. What happens if the supply chain breaks unexpectedly?
We really ought to be strengthening our supply networks.
Not even that, producers and consumers need to stop being dependent on one crop.
stop being dependent on one crop
Could probably just translate that to
people need to stop being fat
The comparison is more apt than appears at first glance. The debates continue, but attacks by the Sea Peoples, or war, is only one of the hypothesized contributers to the collapse. Others include: a pandemic, environmental shifts caused by a volcanic eruption, and drought.
India and US elections are right around the corner, both governments wants to appease the crowd. Hope people will vote responsiblely.
And so began the war for water and food. It will not be a war with only guns and classical battles. It’s about power, influence, treasons, etc.
A war were the basic human has nothing to say and will be neglected. It’s about the upper level, the corporations and the capital will dictate who has access to food and water.
It’s time to stop the infinite grow of the capital which isn’t sustainable on earth and elsewhere. This will make possible to take care of our environment and the planet to feed everyone correctly.
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So a rough estimate of 1600 kcals per pound of rice, 10 billion pounds, assuming daily intake of 2000 kcals, that’s roughly the yearly calories of about 22 million people (assuming I didn’t fuck up somewhere). To put it in perspective.
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The law of unintended consequences. Do these farmers stop growing rice, banned export, and grow something else profitable. I’m guessing a government ban suggests price controls or curbs.
You can’t change your crops that quickly.
Also, rice is probably still plenty expensive enough.
In India, the benefits of higher prices is rarely passed to the farmers. middlemen/ brokers hoard prodcuts and make hay.
Rice is one of the few crops where the govt sets a Minimum Selling Price (MSP) and farmer prefer it knowing their crop will atleast get them some returns. for most of the agri products, there is no MSP, and farmers have no way of knowing whether the crop they’ve borrowed money to plant and have slaved to grow & reap will fetch them any money. When even returns are not assured, profits are a distant dream. The financial situation of farmers caused by inconsistent returns is so terrible that almost all farmers are deep in debt and since
the 1970s an estimated 30 Indian farmers have been killing themselves everyday due to debt.The situation is so dire that as of 2018, the Indian government has not published data on farmer suicides since 2015.
Man, we are so utterly fucked. It’s so damn frustrating that this is still just the very beginning of extreme weather caused by climate change. 10-20 years from now is going to be pretty fucking bleak for much of the world.
I can’t live in a developsd country with prices going up. May be I should move to India? Has anyone ever been to india ? How is it?
Plenty of Indians would gladly trade places with you
I wouldn’t mind hey. I just googled best places to visit in India and Kashmir, Mizoram, Manipal looks dope af.
Fake news. Fear porn.
good bit, but dale wasn’t quite that stupid
