Poor farmers in India and other third world countries have noticed many phenomena since 1990: (a) unpredictable rain falls, because of which (b) people started

Poor farmers in India and other third world countries have noticed many phenomena since 1990: (a) unpredictable rain falls, because of which (b) people started to drill wells to fetch ground water, which was abundant at 100 ft. After drying up all ground water for 30 years, now one has to drill 700 ft deep to get drinking water, let alone water for agriculture. Also, population increase and demands for quality of life improvements are other factors. 100 years ago, many would have been happy with subsistence farming. 30 years ago, even poor farmers started to grow commercial crops (cotton, paddy, sunflower)--there is a shift away from subsistence. Average people in 1990 would never have explained these effects using climate change. Now, average folks in the third world know more about climate change, global warming, droughts, intensity of and unpredictability of storms, depletion of aquifers, abuse of water usage, scarcity of drinking water, even human migrations due to droughts, etc.