Food security is more important than energy security. People need food more than they need fuel for SUVs and trucks.
, from her new post as chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy, recently pointed out, there’s simply no way to adapr to the temperature rises in the offing.
“Human civilization is based on the assumption of a stable climate,” she said. “But we are moving far beyond the stable range.” Wonder what she means? Consider thisindicating that America’s corn belt — the single biggest patch of fertile soil on planet earth — may not be able to grow corn by the time today’s kids are my age.
“And wonder what that world looks like? The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, said last week that using militaries to liberate the grain that Russia is preventing from export in the Ukraine would be “a high risk military operation.” According to the, retired Adm. James Stavridis, a former supreme allied commander of NATO, argued this week that ships under the auspices of the United Nations, NATO, or a coalition of nations could escort convoys of grain as U.S.
McKibben ends with a plea to transition from fossil fuels to renewables as a way to cool the planet and increase food security for all. Yet 60% of the corn grown in Iowa is used to make ethanol for vehicles to burn. “One seventieth of that acreage devoted to solar panels and pumped into the battery of an EV would provide the same mileage,” he writes.So here we are, America, wrapped up in our woes about high gas prices while we continue to build larger, heavier vehicles to go shopping in.
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