Two of the world’s major wheat-growing regions are skating on the ragged edge of a catastrophic failure.
Since 1981, wheat-withering heat waves have become 16 times more common in the Midwest, according to a study published Friday in the journal NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science.
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4031972-growing-wheat-is-getting-harder-in-a-hotter-world-study/
When climate change dramatically affects the rich countries' food supplies (as it will), then folk, in general, will demand more action from politicians (but generally, folk will carry on regardless with their climate-changing lifestyles)
We could say that severe climate change is baked into the system (no pun intended)
