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

  • CIWS-30
    5•2 years ago

    We basically are. The only good news is that young conservatives believe in and want to do something about climate change, so when the current crop of oil-funded deniers die off, we have some hope to limit the damage. That said, I’m seriously considering moving up north away north as far away from the equator as possible, and to an area with fresh water and farmland.

    Then buying a gun. Never thought I’d need one after I left the Army, but as things get worse, I suspect that more violence will result due to scarcity and more likely: stress related to perceived scarcity that doesn’t exist. It’s always the fear that’s more dangerous than the reality. We can probably get by with easy to grow, nutrient-dense foods that are boring to eat, like beans. It’s the stress of not being able to eat “tasty” food that’ll probably get people to snap. Gunfights over steak, etc.

    • @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
      21•2 years ago

      If we’re dependent in any way on “the next generation of conservatives” for anything, we should just stop any kind of hoping now.

      There is no validity, utility or future for conservatism. We can’t address the issues we have in this world till that philosophy is dead and buried.

    • SightlineEnglish
      -5•2 years ago

      No way you were in a combat related occupation and didn’t own a personal firearm. If you had a desk job then what was the point of mentioning the Army?

      I call bullshit.

      edit: It’s been over 24 hours and he’s done nothing to displace my assumptions. This isn’t my first day on the internet.

        • SightlineEnglish
          0•2 years ago

          some pretty insane assumptions there mate

          Perhaps, something about it set off my bullshit radar.

            • SightlineEnglish
              -1•2 years ago

              It’s been over 24 hours and he’s done nothing to displace my assumptions. This isn’t my first day on the internet, I’ve seen this shit before.