Climate change has ravaged India’s rice stock. Now its export ban could deepen a global food crisis
Climate change has ravaged India’s rice stock. Now its export ban could deepen a global food crisis
Satish Kumar sits in front of his submerged rice paddy in India’s Haryana state, looking despairingly at his ruined crops.
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.
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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.