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Food shortage has nearly nothing to do with climate change and nearly everything to do with sanctions against Russia, resulting in skyrocketing prices of potash
by nemanja 4y ago
Food shortage has nearly nothing to do with climate change and nearly everything to do with sanctions against Russia, resulting in skyrocketing prices of potash, nitrogen and ultimately fertilizer. Combine that with the fact that Ukraine and Russia are also major wheat exporters. Aside from China, most of the countries are running very lean food reserves, resulting in added pressure.
- elevenoh 4y agoCorrect. HN loves the climate change boogey man theology
- redisman 4y agoDon’t blame the sanctions. The sanctions didn’t bomb the wheat fields of Europe into shit and blockade all the seaports in Ukraine
- dheerajvs 4y agoClimate change has a definite impact on crop yield. The recent impact on wheat crop in India is a case in point: https://phys.org/news/2022-04-india-wheat-crop-snags-export.html https://phys.org/news/2022-04-india-wheat-crop-snags-export.... > An unusually early, record-shattering heat wave in India has reduced wheat yields [...] Climate change has made India's heat wave hotter, said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at the Imperial College of London [...] "But now it is a much more common event—we can expect such high temperatures about once in every four years," she said. > India's vulnerability to extreme heat increased 15% from 1990 to 2019, according to a 2021 report by the medical journal The Lancet.