Why Our Food is Not Ready for Climate Change

Everest Leo

Mr. Roddy

IHSS

16 May 2022

Why Our Food is Not Ready for Climate Change

    I read an article that talked about climate change and its current and possible effects on our food supply. I am quite informed on climate change so none of the extremely alarming data was too surprising, but that doesn't make it less important. One of the main points the article talked about was how little diversity we have in terms of staple crops. Of course, it makes more sense to have less diversity for the sake of easier mass production, but this is very dangerous, as if there were to be just one event that wiped out a sizeable portion of the global wheat supply, it would have devastating effects. It also happens to be that a lot of the crops we consume are picky with their environment, take coffee, for example, it is widely consumed around the world on a daily basis, Yet there are only two species. Adding on to that, the species used the most is the Arabica species and that is the pickiest plant. It needs the right humidity, rain, sun, and temperature or else it is not viable, and it is already being hit hard by climate change so any extreme weather events caused by climate change in the future are definitely going to hamper production. Naturally, coffee is not something that is vital to live, but there are other crops that actually support populations that have similar problems. One of these crops is wheat and it is sad to think that if some regions lose access to wheat, they will starve. We already have quite a large starvation problem and climate change is just exacerbating the issue. This is just another example of how the people who are hit the hardest by climate change are the ones who have contributed the least to climate change.

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