Reply #7: Crop failures causing rising food prices may be the only thing [View All]

[amandabeech]

that gets people in the U.S. concerned about global warming, er, climate change.

In addition to the drought in the southwest, the drought in northern Illinois and surrounding areas continues. This is real corn and soybeans country that ordinarily receives sufficient precipitation to produce good crops without irrigation. This year other regions produced bumper crops of corn and prices are low, but future years may not be so good.

Admittedly, the U.S. probably still has enough purchasing power to import food from elsewhere, but what if everyone, including the Chinese, the Indians and the southern Europeans, are trying to do the same?

The belly may be even more important to Americans than the fuel tank.