Climate change has ravaged India's rice stock. Now its export ban could deepen a global food crisis | CNN Business
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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.

    • Blake [he/him]@feddit.uk
      4·
      1 year ago

      You are spreading disinformation.

      Climate change can be significantly reduced or prevented entirely while maintaining or improving the quality of life for everyone except perhaps for the elite.

      1. A rapid transition to 100% renewable electricity, which is considered to be very achievable with current technology.
      2. Transition to electric-powered systems for heating, most likely ground or air source heat pumps, and investment in insulating buildings.
      3. Rapid substitution of private cars for cheap, clean, comfortable, electric-powered public transport, wherever possible.
      4. The transition of the majority of over-land shipping to using electric rail rather than road.
      5. The transition to cleaner fuels or electricity for oversea shipping.
      6. Globally transitioning to a diet which is almost entirely plant-based.

      None of these steps is particularly hard or expensive. Around a trillion (1,000,000,000,000) dollars are invested in fossil fuels annually which is money that could be put to better use right at the outset.

      If the economic, political or societal structures we have makes the execution of these changes difficult or impossible, then it falls to us to bring about a change in those structures.

        • Blake [he/him]@feddit.uk
          5·
          1 year ago

          I was once told that anyone who claims that they agree with your idea, but they think it isn’t feasible because “average people wouldn’t accept it” is either astroturfing or ignorant. From the head spinning levels of disinformation in the original post, it’s pretty clear which side you fall on.