Alfred Nobel's Birthday

Today is Alfred Nobel’s birthday. He's the guy the Nobel Prize is named for. Celebrate his birthday by reading more about the Nobel Prize.

How Does Global Warming Really Affect Food?

In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore won the Nobel Prize for Peace. This was a good step toward recognizing that global warming may be affecting all of us. Global warming could be affecting the climate. In turn, that can affect our food supplies in more ways than we thought were possible.

Even if global warming isn’t all man-made, I think it’s in our best interest to help reduce the effects of it. We, as human beings, have the intelligence and perserverance to solve the world’s climate crisis. Enough people are starving without the threat of climate change. If global warming increases, it could continue to wreak havoc on the world’s agriculture. Change in climate means a change in the types of food that grows in certain areas of the world. Droughts or too much rain could drastically change farm crops. Major storms could also cause crop damage beyond recovery. Some crops could disappear altogether. The fact is, we don’t know what the future holds. We can’t sit back and just wait until the last minute. That could prove disasterous.

More farmers need to practice sustainable farming, farming that lessens the impact on the Earth’s resources. Use conservation and less pesticides. I have a personal garden every year. I think if more people did that, there might be less of a need to use so much land for farming. We could develop alternative fuels to take place of the fuels that taint our atmosphere and contribute to the rising world temperatures. We need to come up with alternative food sources and ways to grow our existing food sources in new ways. We can consider indoor gardening or greenhouse growing. We have options.

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• Climate and Farming