Climate to wreak havoc on food supply, predicts report
This map represents the density of children in food crisis over the next 40 years should climate change continue on its present course.
*tries not to look at the Philippines…tries not to look at the Philippines*
Ugh. I looked. We’re all sorts of fucked.
By the way, this is why tackling food security, land use and agricultural development is so damn important.
I’ve been reading more about our government’s attempts at agrarian reform lately, and doing a bit of research into our use of agricultural land (because, reducing some questions to their simplest parts — we have awesome natural resources, why are we messing things up?) and… I am grieved, but not surprised. We aren’t doing a very good job of it.
Many of the existing structures that do so much to strangle the development of our agricultural lands can be traced to deliberate acts of corruption and abuse of power. To add salt and kalamansi to the wound: we blame our current selves for all this brokenness, when our fault lies more truly in claiming the blame for ourselves (for, perhaps, we are lazy, unlike other countries; or we do not have the technology and have no money to acquire it, unlike other countries — but these are not neutral or unmarked or natural states), in not seeking redress and prosecuting to the utmost of our abilities. We bear responsibility for our present; we should also claim the responsibility for our future, and find ways to deal with this. Because this is not something that can or should be borne.
(And kalamansi in wounds is also meant to wake.)
