Klimawandel könnte Nahrungsmittelkrise auslösen
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2479248/climate-change-feared-to-trigger-food-crisis
Klimawandel könnte Nahrungsmittelkrise auslösen
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2479248/climate-change-feared-to-trigger-food-crisis
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Submission statement: related to the future as this article illustrates effects that could soon spread to many other countries without drastic action taken on climate change.
Pakistan is one of the countries hardest hit by the changing climate. Now it appears ready to heavily affect their domestic food production in 2025-26. Key crops, such as onions and tomatoes, are predicted to go from net export to needing to be imported.
> Speaking at the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) & V20 and the All Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Exporters, Importers and Merchants Association (PFVA), the association’s Patron-in-Chief, Waheed Ahmed, said, “I am seeing a major food crisis in Pakistan in 2025-26 if the threat from climate change is left unattended to.”
> He pointed out that Pakistan had become an importer of even those food items which were commonly consumed in almost all households everyday including onion and tomato due to the impact of climate change. Until a year ago, Pakistan was a net exporter of such commodities.
This potential reduction in crops is compounded by Pakistan dealing with relentless heatwaves that are killing hundreds -https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn05rz3w4x1o
It’s also hard to forget the 2022 floods, which have been linked to climate change as well – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-024-00630-4
Is Pakistan the proverbial „canary in the coal mine“ of what is to come or an unfortunate outlier?
Next up at 11, water is wet but I also stuck my hand in fire and ouchie, that burns.
Immediately after the “food crisis” it will create a refugee crisis. It will be an uninhabitable desert in our lifetime.
Duh. I feel so sorry for all the wild animals. They don’t have air conditioning. They have winter coats. It’s the auto industry that did it to us. We used to have an elite system of public transportation in this country. But the car manufacturers bought them out. Disassembled them and made it cool and affordable for every one to own a car. Even though they all go the same direction on the highway. I can remember back in 1980 hearing about the ozone layer depletion. But it’s always been all talk no action and animals are panting all day now. Or dying in wildfires.
The single greatest problem in the modern world is those who perpetrate evil don’t suffer the consequences of it. Politicians and mega-corporations who deny and fuel climate change will be the last to feel it’s effects, and will demonise those who’s homes, livelihoods, and food sources its destroys. Eat the rich or starve.
I don’t know what killed us first:
climate change, a world war, a meteorite, a super bacteria, AI getting smarter and rebelling against us, or everything together.
So far, food production and agricultural productivity worldwide are inclining steadily. And it’s likely that climate change wouldn’t be enough to buck the trend.
What could happen instead is *localized* agricultural failures. Minor, in the grand scheme of things – but very, very sensitive to the people who rely on local agriculture for their sustenance.
Climate change isn’t some sort of great equalizer. People who are at risk are the ones who are already at the brink.
I had mentioned climate change likely impacting food security in the coming decades in another thread, and was immediately set upon by people mocking the very notion because we were about to hit peak population and completely ignoring the already occurring crop failures and imminent loss of arable land. I imagine they were mainly people living comfortably in first world nations where everything can be taken for granted.
Too many mouths. The planet was better off at about 4 billion.
Thats why im plantingnao many varieties of food crops on my property to see what is thriving in this new climate and to be able to share.
I try to spread the word, but no one listens
Ted did a great episode on this recently: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/05/1198908979/ted-radio-hour-future-of-food-eating-on-a-warmer-planet
We need to stop producing animal products. So much wasted land and resources for a minority of calories. You can feed far more people with far less land plant based.
You mean the very thing climate scientists said would happen? Wow, I’m shocked.
There is no food crisis, there is enough food. It is a distribution crisis.
This is easily the most predictable crisis we’re going to face. Even discounting the effects of climate change, scarcity of food was always on the horizon. Climate change just gets us there a whole lot faster.
if there is a food shortage it will have been orchestrated. The EU is doing its best as we speak.
Climate change? How about a war with Russia? Who interns cuts off fertilization for everyone, which equals food shortages.
This is no longer a secret to anyone, the only question is how early it will happen.
World War 3 wont be over oil or silicone chips.
Itll be over food and water.
This is why institutions (I’m looking at you EU), and the general population needs to warm up to the idea of genetic technology. The technology is there to make crops more heat/drought resistant while reducing the need for pesticides and fertilizers and increasing output. There’s also a strong scientific consensus about the safety of GMO crops, both for human health and the environment. It’s well past time to drop the ant-science nonsense that has followed the GMO debate.
Like every fallen civilization historically, basically? Discounting colonization’s indirect impacts this has been how it’s always ended.
No shit, I have already began storing rice, vitamins, peanut butter, and flour.
It has been said for years too. It is going to cause massive disruptions to our supply of food and water. And wars are going to be fought over both.
Climate change has already triggered massive famine in North Africa. And all the war and violence and further ecological deterioration that comes with it.
The climate wars will probably be a thing in the future. Realistically, starting to stockpile nonperishables isn’t a bad idea. Best case scenario, you end up with a bunch of food you don’t need and can give away.
Google “multiple breadbasket failure”
Also, rice will only germinate during a relatively narrow temperature window. Above that, it won’t grow.
Then there’s the water issue.
Monsoon cycles are threatened every time the Enso flips. One year it may just miss India entirely.
Woah, too bad anyone never warned about this. I have a feeling we are in a lot of nasty suprises in near future.