According to “Global warming increases 'food shocks' threat” (McGrath, 2015), researchers found that global warming may cause the food shortage due to poor harvests and low stock of grains especially in Africa and the Middle East. Wealth countries may be able to cope with this problem because consumer in this region tends to ingest more processed food. Moreover, because of the fact that biofuel become increasingly popular, lands are used to produce this power instead of farming.
Recently, people have gradually realized the impacts of global warming in many ways. As we already knew that, in the long run, it affects the diversity of ecosystem and may make the iceberg melt rapidly causing the heavy flood all over the world. However, climate change may disrupt food production and drive us to face starvation in the near future.
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Drought is one of the most significant impacts of climate change on food |
For agricultural country like Thailand, weather play an important role in people’s life and economic growth. When whole country suffer from severe flooding in 2011, it took a year to restore the damages in farming business. At that time, many household choose to hoard processed food such as canned foods and instant noodle. In addition, a number of chain restaurant needed to be temporally closed down because the suppliers cannot manage to cultivate the ingredient. The market price of vegetable and other raw foods also raised at least 5-10 %. I can tell that it is a hard time for all of us and if this incident is going to happen again, I want to suggest some possible solutions.
“Say no to plastic bag” campaign may be considered out of date, but I still think it’s a good idea to tackle the global warming problem. I mean, as a one person on this big planet, there may be a little thing we can do to mitigate this situation. Another way is the sustainable food system. Nowadays, there is an organization that helps teaching people so they can provide food for themselves in a sustainable way. If their project is accomplished, the number of imported food will significantly decrease and the rising of food’s price will not affect them.
From my point of view, we should take steps to solve this problem; otherwise we may have to face malnutrition.
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Reference
McGrath, M.(2015, August 14), Global warming increases 'food shocks' threat. BBC News. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33910552
The campaign about reducing the use plastic bag you mentioned brought me to one question. Can this campaign really help decrease global warming effect? I was wondering if it can help or support the global warming problem because I think, in turn, if we use a lot of bags made of paper of cloth—that are usually originated from trees—instead of reusing the plastic bags, that will make a great number of trees destroyed. However, I believe one important thing we gained from this campaign is to make people realize more in global warming problem and pay much attention to environmental concerns.
ReplyDeleteI thought that the campaign against plastic bags would likely fail, and I think it did. I was doing some grocery shopping at the Paragon supermarket on the 15th, and they gave me as many plastic as usual. No one said anything about using less.
DeleteAt first I thought maybe that supermarket wasn't in the campaign, then I spotted the notices about it above every checkout. They were being totally ignored by customers and by staff.
The idea for this campaign might have been good, but it seemed poorly planned and no reason was given as to why it might ever have been a success. There are lots of campaigns for good causes, and many of them seem to me a complete waste of time and effort because they are not based on principles that might even work, just someone's "good" idea that has no solid support.
Years ago I bought products from Central group that had this campaign too by discount about five percent of the total cost for a customer who had his/her own bag. I am not sure does it exist present.
DeleteIn addition, Big C is running this campaign with different way by using the easy degradation plastic bag; however, it doesn't work because it easily tears which cannot carry heavy goods.
There are also plastic bags from every custom shops make this campaign hardly successes.
A 5% discount would definitely get me interested in bringing my own non-plastic bag. But I can't imagine that that would be possible - 5% is a large discount.
DeleteIce also mentions the idea of producing your own food, but I wonder if this is such a good idea? Might it not be more efficient to pay others to produce your food, and use the money saved to more effectively deal with the likely consequences of global warming? (I suspect that some global warming is now inevitable - it's probably too late to stop it.) Sustainability seems a desirable goal, but I'm less sure that self-sufficiency is desirable.
ReplyDeleteI think there are many factors that lead to starvation not only climate changes. The volume of agriculture has decrease for many years after the owners turn or sell the land to industry development; in addition, many farmer families get higher education, so their descendant turn to be white collar group who work in a big city instead; as a result, the country will lack of the farmers which may affect to the volume of natural production too.
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