Climate change has ravaged India's rice stock. Now its export ban could deepen a global food crisis | CNN Business
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Satish Kumar sits in front of his submerged rice paddy in India’s Haryana state, looking despairingly at his ruined crops.

Newly planted rice saplings have been underwater since July after torrential rain battered northern India, with landslides and flash floods sweeping through the region.

Last month, India, which is the world’s largest exporter of rice, announced a ban on exporting non-basmati white rice in a bid to calm rising prices at home and ensure food security. India then followed with more restrictions on its rice exports, including a 20% duty on exports of parboiled rice.

The move has triggered fears of global food inflation, hurt the livelihoods of some farmers and prompted several rice-dependent countries to seek urgent exemptions from the ban.

  • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
    53·
    10 months ago

    I think you’re a bit delusional. All those things take years if not decades. Where I lived they struggled to get rid of carbon furnaces because:

    • lobbying from manufacturers
    • a lot of people that use those live in social housing so it’s city’s responsibility and city didn’t have money for it
    • even with subsidies changing a furnace is a big cost so people were avoiding it
    • people were uncertain about the new regulations and future prices (what do you install? electric? gas? pellet? which one will be cheaper in 5 year time?)

    It’s not enough to theoretically have money for something. To actually implement it you have to overcome a lot of opposition and people will strongly oppose to :

    • electric cars - just look at comments anywhere. “What? I will have to charge my car for 30 minutes instead of 10? Unacceptable.” (I do have an electric car)
    • heat pumps - same, people complain that they might not work ideally when it gets very cold once a year. (I do have an heat pump)
    • plant based diet - people do like their meat

    Everything else will require lots of money and time. Those are huge project and implementing them will take decades. What will happen to truck drivers? How long will it take to replace current ships fleet? Where will you get all the lithium from? People are protesting new mining projects in Europe and USA. People are even complaining that the entire country side is being covered by solar panels.

    Yes, we have money to do it all but the change will be slow and we’ve run out of time already.

    • Blake [he/him]@feddit.uk
      51·
      10 months ago

      I was once told that anyone who claims that they agree with your idea, but they think it isn’t feasible because “average people wouldn’t accept it” is either astroturfing or ignorant. From the head spinning levels of disinformation in the original post, it’s pretty clear which side you fall on.

      • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
        32·
        10 months ago

        Well, if someone told you this than it must be true. Hard to argue with such a great argument.