Papantonio: Climate Change Leads to Massive Food Shortages

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If you’ve seen Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, then you’re probably familiar with the concept of global unrest spurred on by climate change. In his film, he talked about these issues as being something that could happen in the future, but as we’re seeing around the world today, these events are already happening. As climate change is making access to resources more and more scarce, people around the globe are becoming scared, and sometimes violent. Mike Papantonio talks about how this is happening, and what we can do, with Christian Parenti, author of the new book “Tropic of Chaos: climate Change and the New Geography of Violence.”

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1. Planning

What we need to be doing is replanting the planet. Given time, nature will rearrange itself and plants will move where climate is optimal for them, that is if they aren't eaten by humans or animals first. Given that we and our livestock eat a lot of those plants, we need to get ahead of our consumption and plant areas that are now defoliated.

Somalia is a good example. Overgrazing has reduced the carrying capacity of that country to the point where the population is starving. However, if local native species were given a head start (by a government capable of planning and carrying out projects on a national scale) it could be much more productive. If you want to see what long-term planning can do for desertified areas, check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9dhtu15DXY (the link is to part2, but all 6 are worth watching).