The climate wrecking ball striking food supply

https://www.axios.com/2023/08/07/climate-commodities-food-supply

by myshpa • 3 years ago

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h2odragon• 3 years ago

Governments ordering farmers to stop farming, in the name of "climate impact mitigation," is also going to negatively impact food supply. Let's be honest here.

myshpa5• 3 years ago

I just went through that article again ... I see not a single mention about "governments ordering farmers". Have I missed something?

thebooktocome2• 3 years ago

It’s not related to the article, but the UK is currently restructuring its farming subsidies to, among other things, encourage sustainable farming and mitigate food security risk.

Basically everyone is unhappy about it for some reason. Some sheep farmers were told to reduce their flock by 90% or so.

But on the other hand, the pastures they’ve traditionally used to graze can no longer sustain such flocks (although this is controversial, it seems borne out by my reading). So if they continue to consider only profit motives, the pasture will end up dead and they’ll be out of work anyway.

It’s a hard problem that ought to have been solved decades ago.

wsc9813• 3 years ago

In The Netherlands the government tries to buy out farmers and they have to promise not to start a farm elsewhere in the EU.

The climate wrecking ball striking food supply

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