http://www.news.wisc.edu/20224
When the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Durban, South Africa this past December, it was to address the multiple aspects of global warming and its effects. This article points out the importance of researching sustainable farming practices and the need for new policy-making. The lack of focus previously placed on food security in a changing climate seems to be a reflection of those in power. While past UNFCCCs have discussed greenhouse emissions as the main problem we face today, the food shortages climate change has caused have been conspicuously absent in discourse. As most populations affected by food shortages are poorer and agriculturally based, the convention in Durban shows a movement, if small, towards justice for those most directly affected by climate change.
Global warming seems to be looked at in the future tense. There are views that the effects of global warming have yet to be seen; the effects of global warming on the environment have said to be unseen until the long, unforeseeable future. However, just as this article by the UNFCCC has described, global warming is affecting food shortage, scarcity, and security, today! When looking at the underprivileged communities, where the state of the environment seems to strike its furry first, we can see how a group of people are being ignored. Food justice is for all! So the state of the environment should matter even if its effects are concentrated and focused towards one particular area. Thus making global warming a more present and immediate threat to the environment and food security.
ReplyDeleteAnother good article relating to this problem is http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/science/earth/05harvest.html?pagewanted=all
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