The politics of food.

[Sparker]

They are other fuel sources the tractors and ships can be powered by.

Nothing matches oil's EROEI. The next best option in farming is horses and oxen eating grass. Ships can use sails instead of engines, but they will be smaller, slower, and more limited in schedule. And they might be wiped out by pirates with drones and missiles.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Things are getting done. Especially in other countries. Biden signed an aggressive bill to fight climate change. The orange menace's potential election threatens that.

There is no fighting climate change. Even if we humans were 100% responsible for it (which we are not) mankind is not willing to make the changes that would be needed to stop it.

All that can be done is plan for the changes and take advantage of the positives and mitigate the damage.

But as long as people like you on both sides are fighting over the cause, we cannot even do that

 

[Carl in Michigan]

What to Eat on a Burning Planet​

This election season, many Americans are deeply distraught about the cost of food. You hear their frustrations in polls, at rallies and in focus groups — sticker shock is one of the few issues left to unite Americans across the political spectrum. But as painful as foodflation is, it may just be an early ripple of the kind of disruption to the food system that’s coming. The scale of these changes will be breathtaking. Their global consequences will be profound. And for most of us, they will change what’s in our refrigerators and on our kitchen tables.

Already, we can see the early tremors starting to rattle the global food system. As climate change permanently alters weather patterns, farmers are struggling to produce crops in the same huge volumes they once did. In California this month’s heat wave turned lettuce yellow. In Vietnam extreme heat has damaged the coffee crop, sending prices worldwide soaring. Consumers will soon see even higher prices and less of the foods they have come to know and love. Like it or not, our produce aisles are on the brink of transformation.
Opinion | What to Eat on a Burning Planet

Food as You Know It Is About to Change

About three-quarters of all global agricultural land is vulnerable to substantial climate disruptions, NASA’s Jonas Jägermeyr says, “so mostly everywhere you look, things will change in one way or the other.” And that probably means the food you’re eating, too.

“The good news is, we’ve seen this show before — we’ve faced crises before,” says Mr. Barrett. The examples of success he cites are probably familiar: Innovations to solve the challenges of the Dust Bowl in America and later the Green Revolution in Asia allowed hundreds of millions of people to avoid starvation and helped usher in the fastest escape from extreme poverty the world has ever experienced.

Mr. Barrett sees plenty of promise on the horizon now, too: biofortified crops; new techniques to fix nitrogen from the air, limiting the use of fossil-fuel based fertilizer; resilient varieties, like flood-resistant rice, that are already transforming the paddies of South Asia. But there’s no magic-bullet solution, he says: We need a bundle of innovations and interventions.
Opinion | Food as You Know It Is About to Change

The reason for the vulnerability? Partly because the 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 2014. And partly because extreme weather events like heat waves and floods have increased about 400% in the last 50 years. Not to mention that both drought and floods can degraded the quality of topsoil needed to grow crops. The insurer Lloyd's estimates there is a 50% chance of a food shock in which a multiyear period of extreme weather leads to major crop failures in the next 30 years. (Mods, some of the stats are from an article in The Week for which I have no link)

If anyone needed another reason to vote for Harris, this is it.

You are the guys who created this situation

 

[Frankenstein]

Retards such as yourself will have them living in grass huts and foraging for their food.

And eating each other!

 

[Lesh]

Climate change and politics should not be combined

Climate Change requires policy change. That means government.

It only becomes political when one party wants to ignore it and the other wants to deal with it.

You are correct. It shouldn’t be “political”

 

[scruffy]

Nitwits like you are going to cause my grandchildren, and all the people of the world, to live much more difficult lives than is necessary.

Too late. Biden and Harris already did that.

 

[theHawk]

Climate Change requires policy change. That means government.

It only becomes political when one party wants to ignore it and the other wants to deal with it.

You are correct. It shouldn’t be “political”

Climate Change is a hoax for globalists to grab more government power. The people that proclaim to care about the environment don’t give a damn about it at all. They just know it is easy to manipulate the masses with hysteria and fear so they will grant them more power.

 

[marvin martian]

What to Eat on a Burning Planet​

This election season, many Americans are deeply distraught about the cost of food. You hear their frustrations in polls, at rallies and in focus groups — sticker shock is one of the few issues left to unite Americans across the political spectrum. But as painful as foodflation is, it may just be an early ripple of the kind of disruption to the food system that’s coming. The scale of these changes will be breathtaking. Their global consequences will be profound. And for most of us, they will change what’s in our refrigerators and on our kitchen tables.

Already, we can see the early tremors starting to rattle the global food system. As climate change permanently alters weather patterns, farmers are struggling to produce crops in the same huge volumes they once did. In California this month’s heat wave turned lettuce yellow. In Vietnam extreme heat has damaged the coffee crop, sending prices worldwide soaring. Consumers will soon see even higher prices and less of the foods they have come to know and love. Like it or not, our produce aisles are on the brink of transformation.
Opinion | What to Eat on a Burning Planet

Food as You Know It Is About to Change

About three-quarters of all global agricultural land is vulnerable to substantial climate disruptions, NASA’s Jonas Jägermeyr says, “so mostly everywhere you look, things will change in one way or the other.” And that probably means the food you’re eating, too.

“The good news is, we’ve seen this show before — we’ve faced crises before,” says Mr. Barrett. The examples of success he cites are probably familiar: Innovations to solve the challenges of the Dust Bowl in America and later the Green Revolution in Asia allowed hundreds of millions of people to avoid starvation and helped usher in the fastest escape from extreme poverty the world has ever experienced.

Mr. Barrett sees plenty of promise on the horizon now, too: biofortified crops; new techniques to fix nitrogen from the air, limiting the use of fossil-fuel based fertilizer; resilient varieties, like flood-resistant rice, that are already transforming the paddies of South Asia. But there’s no magic-bullet solution, he says: We need a bundle of innovations and interventions.
Opinion | Food as You Know It Is About to Change

The reason for the vulnerability? Partly because the 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 2014. And partly because extreme weather events like heat waves and floods have increased about 400% in the last 50 years. Not to mention that both drought and floods can degraded the quality of topsoil needed to grow crops. The insurer Lloyd's estimates there is a 50% chance of a food shock in which a multiyear period of extreme weather leads to major crop failures in the next 30 years. (Mods, some of the stats are from an article in The Week for which I have no link)

If anyone needed another reason to vote for Harris, this is it.

What are you personally doing to fight global warming?

 

[Lesh]

Climate Change is a hoax for globalists to grab more government power. The people that proclaim to care about the environment don’t give a damn about it at all. They just know it is easy to manipulate the masses with hysteria and fear so they will grant them more power.housands o

Paranoid right wing bullshit.

Climate change is already affecting the food supply.

You morons point to a warmer planet thousands of years ago.

That warmer planet wasn’t trying to feed a human population to the tens of billions

 

[Woodznutz]

What to Eat on a Burning Planet​

This election season, many Americans are deeply distraught about the cost of food. You hear their frustrations in polls, at rallies and in focus groups — sticker shock is one of the few issues left to unite Americans across the political spectrum. But as painful as foodflation is, it may just be an early ripple of the kind of disruption to the food system that’s coming. The scale of these changes will be breathtaking. Their global consequences will be profound. And for most of us, they will change what’s in our refrigerators and on our kitchen tables.

Already, we can see the early tremors starting to rattle the global food system. As climate change permanently alters weather patterns, farmers are struggling to produce crops in the same huge volumes they once did. In California this month’s heat wave turned lettuce yellow. In Vietnam extreme heat has damaged the coffee crop, sending prices worldwide soaring. Consumers will soon see even higher prices and less of the foods they have come to know and love. Like it or not, our produce aisles are on the brink of transformation.
Opinion | What to Eat on a Burning Planet

Food as You Know It Is About to Change

About three-quarters of all global agricultural land is vulnerable to substantial climate disruptions, NASA’s Jonas Jägermeyr says, “so mostly everywhere you look, things will change in one way or the other.” And that probably means the food you’re eating, too.

“The good news is, we’ve seen this show before — we’ve faced crises before,” says Mr. Barrett. The examples of success he cites are probably familiar: Innovations to solve the challenges of the Dust Bowl in America and later the Green Revolution in Asia allowed hundreds of millions of people to avoid starvation and helped usher in the fastest escape from extreme poverty the world has ever experienced.

Mr. Barrett sees plenty of promise on the horizon now, too: biofortified crops; new techniques to fix nitrogen from the air, limiting the use of fossil-fuel based fertilizer; resilient varieties, like flood-resistant rice, that are already transforming the paddies of South Asia. But there’s no magic-bullet solution, he says: We need a bundle of innovations and interventions.
Opinion | Food as You Know It Is About to Change

The reason for the vulnerability? Partly because the 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 2014. And partly because extreme weather events like heat waves and floods have increased about 400% in the last 50 years. Not to mention that both drought and floods can degraded the quality of topsoil needed to grow crops. The insurer Lloyd's estimates there is a 50% chance of a food shock in which a multiyear period of extreme weather leads to major crop failures in the next 30 years. (Mods, some of the stats are from an article in The Week for which I have no link)

If anyone needed another reason to vote for Harris, this is it.

As food becomes scarce, people will get slimmer, healthier. Bring it!

 

[Lesh]

As food becomes scarce, people will get slimmer, healthier. Bring it!

Please tell me you’re trying to be funny

 

[evenflow1969]

Yup. But what the OP and so many others simply won't recognize is that more people die of cold than heat, both man and beast have fared infinitely better during warm times on Earth than cold and also food was much more plentiful.

And because politics is already pushing this whole climate change thing, I again submit that we would all be far better off putting money and resources into helping us adapt to inevitable climate change than we are pouring trillions into Green New Deal things that restrict liberties, options, choices, opportunity, prosperity and so far have not affected the climate in any measurable way.

Well then I am sure you won't bitch about the rise in cost at the grocery store coming because this year's harvest is going to suck.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Paranoid right wing bullshit.

GASLIGHT ALERT

 

[Dekster]

What to Eat on a Burning Planet​

This election season, many Americans are deeply distraught about the cost of food. You hear their frustrations in polls, at rallies and in focus groups — sticker shock is one of the few issues left to unite Americans across the political spectrum. But as painful as foodflation is, it may just be an early ripple of the kind of disruption to the food system that’s coming. The scale of these changes will be breathtaking. Their global consequences will be profound. And for most of us, they will change what’s in our refrigerators and on our kitchen tables.

Already, we can see the early tremors starting to rattle the global food system. As climate change permanently alters weather patterns, farmers are struggling to produce crops in the same huge volumes they once did. In California this month’s heat wave turned lettuce yellow. In Vietnam extreme heat has damaged the coffee crop, sending prices worldwide soaring. Consumers will soon see even higher prices and less of the foods they have come to know and love. Like it or not, our produce aisles are on the brink of transformation.
Opinion | What to Eat on a Burning Planet

Food as You Know It Is About to Change

About three-quarters of all global agricultural land is vulnerable to substantial climate disruptions, NASA’s Jonas Jägermeyr says, “so mostly everywhere you look, things will change in one way or the other.” And that probably means the food you’re eating, too.

“The good news is, we’ve seen this show before — we’ve faced crises before,” says Mr. Barrett. The examples of success he cites are probably familiar: Innovations to solve the challenges of the Dust Bowl in America and later the Green Revolution in Asia allowed hundreds of millions of people to avoid starvation and helped usher in the fastest escape from extreme poverty the world has ever experienced.

Mr. Barrett sees plenty of promise on the horizon now, too: biofortified crops; new techniques to fix nitrogen from the air, limiting the use of fossil-fuel based fertilizer; resilient varieties, like flood-resistant rice, that are already transforming the paddies of South Asia. But there’s no magic-bullet solution, he says: We need a bundle of innovations and interventions.
Opinion | Food as You Know It Is About to Change

The reason for the vulnerability? Partly because the 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 2014. And partly because extreme weather events like heat waves and floods have increased about 400% in the last 50 years. Not to mention that both drought and floods can degraded the quality of topsoil needed to grow crops. The insurer Lloyd's estimates there is a 50% chance of a food shock in which a multiyear period of extreme weather leads to major crop failures in the next 30 years. (Mods, some of the stats are from an article in The Week for which I have no link)

If anyone needed another reason to vote for Harris, this is it.

LOL. You seem to think that all the democratic spending doesn't emit as much CO2 as all the GOP spending. They aren't spending billions in new infrastructure made from naturally shed tree limbs.

 

[Foxfyre]

Well then I am sure you won't bitch about the rise in cost at the grocery store coming because this year's harvest is going to suck.

The weather is what it is. And nothing the government or any Green New Deal does is going to change that. Again the time, effort, money should be developing ways to adapt to changes in weather, environment, climate that are out of our control. Learning to live with them is within our control.

 

[evenflow1969]

The weather is what it is. And nothing the government or any Green New Deal does is going to change that. Again the time, effort, money should be developing ways to adapt to changes in weather, environment, climate that are out of our control. Learning to live with them is within our control.

Regardless of the cause change is happening. We are not prepared for it. What are the answers I do not know. I just know I won't be one of the crying little bitches blaming Trump, Biden nor Harris for it. The government does not and has never been able to control everything. I catch kill and grow most my food. The grocery costs have not effected me like most. I do feel for those who have had their wallet effected though. It will get me eventually at my age it gets harder every year to hunt down my food. I spend most my day with 20 somethings. I notice them trying to carry some of my load. Not easy for me to accept but Chronos wins in the end always.

 

[IDIOCRACY]

What to Eat on a Burning Planet​

This election season, many Americans are deeply distraught about the cost of food. You hear their frustrations in polls, at rallies and in focus groups — sticker shock is one of the few issues left to unite Americans across the political spectrum. But as painful as foodflation is, it may just be an early ripple of the kind of disruption to the food system that’s coming. The scale of these changes will be breathtaking. Their global consequences will be profound. And for most of us, they will change what’s in our refrigerators and on our kitchen tables.

Already, we can see the early tremors starting to rattle the global food system. As climate change permanently alters weather patterns, farmers are struggling to produce crops in the same huge volumes they once did. In California this month’s heat wave turned lettuce yellow. In Vietnam extreme heat has damaged the coffee crop, sending prices worldwide soaring. Consumers will soon see even higher prices and less of the foods they have come to know and love. Like it or not, our produce aisles are on the brink of transformation.
Opinion | What to Eat on a Burning Planet

Food as You Know It Is About to Change

About three-quarters of all global agricultural land is vulnerable to substantial climate disruptions, NASA’s Jonas Jägermeyr says, “so mostly everywhere you look, things will change in one way or the other.” And that probably means the food you’re eating, too.

“The good news is, we’ve seen this show before — we’ve faced crises before,” says Mr. Barrett. The examples of success he cites are probably familiar: Innovations to solve the challenges of the Dust Bowl in America and later the Green Revolution in Asia allowed hundreds of millions of people to avoid starvation and helped usher in the fastest escape from extreme poverty the world has ever experienced.

Mr. Barrett sees plenty of promise on the horizon now, too: biofortified crops; new techniques to fix nitrogen from the air, limiting the use of fossil-fuel based fertilizer; resilient varieties, like flood-resistant rice, that are already transforming the paddies of South Asia. But there’s no magic-bullet solution, he says: We need a bundle of innovations and interventions.
Opinion | Food as You Know It Is About to Change

The reason for the vulnerability? Partly because the 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 2014. And partly because extreme weather events like heat waves and floods have increased about 400% in the last 50 years. Not to mention that both drought and floods can degraded the quality of topsoil needed to grow crops. The insurer Lloyd's estimates there is a 50% chance of a food shock in which a multiyear period of extreme weather leads to major crop failures in the next 30 years. (Mods, some of the stats are from an article in The Week for which I have no link)

If anyone needed another reason to vote for Harris, this is it.

Everything u post validates the depths of which the left has fallen. Its somewhere in the area of twisted and tarded.

 

[berg80]

Nothing matches oil's EROEI.

You forgot to factor in the environmental impact of using so much of it.

 

[berg80]

Everything u post validates the depths of which the left has fallen.

Why do you hate the facts so much? Is it because they embarrass you?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Paranoid right wing bullshit.

Climate change is already affecting the food supply.

You morons point to a warmer planet thousands of years ago.

That warmer planet wasn’t trying to feed a human population to the tens of billions

not to pick at nits, but there are only 8 billion people on the planet